# living-wage - Thursday 15 April, 2021
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
An increase to the ‘living wage’ is in the programme for government.
# living-wage - Sunday 27 December, 2020
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
The Taoiseach promised that a living wage would become “a theme of the government”.
# living-wage - Saturday 1 February, 2020
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
It represents a 3% increase, or an extra 30c an hour.
# living-wage - Wednesday 3 July, 2019
# Your Say
# Your Say
The current national minimum wage is €9.80 per hour.
# Cost Of Living
# Cost Of Living
The report also said there were increased costs in energy in the last 12 months.
# living-wage - Friday 3 May, 2019
# Retail And Services
# Retail And Services
The cosmetics company began paying the living wage to staff in 2017.
# living-wage - Tuesday 22 January, 2019
# Job Fairy
# Job Fairy
The discount supermarket chain plans to open seven new stores in Ireland in 2019.
# Your Say
# Your Say
€11.90 per hour has been recommended as an appropriate living wage.
# living-wage - Monday 17 December, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
High earners pay more tax but they also benefit from the fact workers in the service industry get paid low wages, writes Killian Donoghue.
# living-wage - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
The government insists work is under way to address pay and conditions of Defence Forces personnel.
# living-wage - Monday 10 September, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
Young Fine Gael wants its senior party colleagues to change conditions for soldiers being paid ‘the lowest average wage in the public sector’.
# living-wage - Saturday 14 July, 2018
# Column
# Column
Other countries seem to manage fine with decent wages, writes Robert Sweeney.
# living-wage - Wednesday 4 July, 2018
# Money Money Money
# Money Money Money
Despite rising housing costs, the price of food, clothing, health insurance and transport all fell in 2018.
# living-wage - Friday 5 January, 2018
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
It is the first supermarket to commit to paying the living wage.
# living-wage - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
# Your Say
# Your Say
The current housing crisis, and associated increases in rent levels, has been the main driver of the increased wage rate.
# It All Adds Up
# It All Adds Up
The current housing crisis has been the main driver of the increased wage rate.
# living-wage - Thursday 27 April, 2017
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
A release from the CSO suggests that just over 10% of Irish workers are earning €9.25 an hour or less.
# living-wage - Wednesday 30 March, 2016
# Your Say
# Your Say
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.
# living-wage - Sunday 31 January, 2016
# Pay Me My Money Down
# Pay Me My Money Down
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.
# living-wage - Monday 4 January, 2016
# Surprise
# Surprise
The wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour last week.
# living-wage - Friday 18 December, 2015
# living-wage - Monday 26 October, 2015
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
The German supermarket chain also plans to recruit over 400 new staff next year.
# living-wage - Thursday 8 October, 2015
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
The pay increase will be introduced from 1 November.
# living-wage - Wednesday 30 September, 2015
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
This is the estimated rate a person needs to earn to afford a decent standard of living.
# living-wage - Monday 20 July, 2015
# The Payoff
# The Payoff
But business groups are against any rise in the minimum wage.
# Swede As A Nut
# Swede As A Nut
The flat-pack furniture chain has committed to “meaningful” pay for staff.
# living-wage - Tuesday 14 July, 2015
# Enough To Live On
# Enough To Live On
The support to increase the minimum wage has been described as “overwhelming”.
# living-wage - Monday 6 July, 2015
# living-wage - Thursday 19 March, 2015
# We're Not Partying
# We're Not Partying
One in four workers earn less than the living wage, new research has found.
# living-wage - Wednesday 18 March, 2015
# Counting Pennies
# Counting Pennies
Only by 20p though. Is Ireland about to follow the UK’s example? And by how much if so?
# living-wage - Monday 19 January, 2015
# Davos
# Davos
But how can this be reversed?
# living-wage - Sunday 6 July, 2014
# Standard Of Living
# Standard Of Living
Unite described the wages of workers in hospitality, administrative support and retail sectors as ‘poverty pay’.
# living-wage - Thursday 15 May, 2014
# Respect
# Respect
Low-paid, zero hour contracts are on the rise globally, leaving workers without stability or decent quality of life.
# living-wage - Tuesday 21 January, 2014
# Opinion
# Opinion
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.
# living-wage - Monday 9 December, 2013
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
“It is better to bet on earning a little bit less and maintain as many jobs as possible” – do you agree with Mariano Rajoy?
# living-wage - Saturday 30 November, 2013
# Labour Conference
# Labour Conference
Meanwhile, Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Brendan Howlin has pledged to repeal the law on emergency public sector pay cuts.
# living-wage - Thursday 28 November, 2013
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
The Social Protection Minister has made the case for a wage increase that she argues would reduce welfare spend and increase tax revenue.
# Opinion
# Opinion
Our social welfare system already supports those in work by topping-up low wages. This is why a Living Wage could increase tax revenue and decrease spending on benefits, the Social Protection Minister argues.
# living-wage - Saturday 2 November, 2013
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
The Minister for Social Protection has made a significant speech on the welfare state today.
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