With weeks to go until a key legislative deadline, seven EU countries have not even started legislating for new EU minimum wage protections, new research from the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has found. New EU laws, agreed in June 2022 in the wake of a significant cost of living crisis, must be embedded in national legislation to take effect – but France, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania and Malta haven’t even started doing so, ETUC said. “Working people have already waited two years for this directive to be implemented and should not be made to wait any longer,” ETUC C…