Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you
Minimum wage set to be scrapped by 2026 as Government moves to implement living wage
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar announced the draft plan today.
Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar announced the draft plan today.
‘What I want to do is bring in a living wage, do it as quickly as possible, but not in a way that has unintended consequences,’ the Tánaiste said.
Leo Varadkar is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said indexing the tax bands further is needed now more than ever.
The Living Wage Technical Group (LWTG) has said the increase is being driven by higher rents, transport and energy costs.
An increase to the ‘living wage’ is in the programme for government.
The Taoiseach promised that a living wage would become “a theme of the government”.
It represents a 3% increase, or an extra 30c an hour.
The current national minimum wage is €9.80 per hour.
The report also said there were increased costs in energy in the last 12 months.
The cosmetics company began paying the living wage to staff in 2017.
The discount supermarket chain plans to open seven new stores in Ireland in 2019.
€11.90 per hour has been recommended as an appropriate living wage.
High earners pay more tax but they also benefit from the fact workers in the service industry get paid low wages, writes Killian Donoghue.
The government insists work is under way to address pay and conditions of Defence Forces personnel.
Young Fine Gael wants its senior party colleagues to change conditions for soldiers being paid ‘the lowest average wage in the public sector’.
Other countries seem to manage fine with decent wages, writes Robert Sweeney.
Despite rising housing costs, the price of food, clothing, health insurance and transport all fell in 2018.
It is the first supermarket to commit to paying the living wage.
The current housing crisis, and associated increases in rent levels, has been the main driver of the increased wage rate.
The current housing crisis has been the main driver of the increased wage rate.
A release from the CSO suggests that just over 10% of Irish workers are earning €9.25 an hour or less.
Ikea is raising its pay for Irish staff to €11.50 an hour – the basic rate considered necessary to fund a decent standard of living.
The suggested wage at €11.50 per hour, based on the Civil Service 37 hour standard net working week, equates to an annual salary of €22,203.
The wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour last week.
The German supermarket chain also plans to recruit over 400 new staff next year.
The pay increase will be introduced from 1 November.
This is the estimated rate a person needs to earn to afford a decent standard of living.
But business groups are against any rise in the minimum wage.
The flat-pack furniture chain has committed to “meaningful” pay for staff.
The support to increase the minimum wage has been described as “overwhelming”.
The threshold has just gone up.
One in four workers earn less than the living wage, new research has found.
Only by 20p though. Is Ireland about to follow the UK’s example? And by how much if so?
Unite described the wages of workers in hospitality, administrative support and retail sectors as ‘poverty pay’.
Low-paid, zero hour contracts are on the rise globally, leaving workers without stability or decent quality of life.
We shouldn’t view a living wage for employees as a burden, but as an investment: it would be one of the most effective ways to stimulate the economy, writes Ciaran Garrett.
“It is better to bet on earning a little bit less and maintain as many jobs as possible” – do you agree with Mariano Rajoy?