# minimum-wage - Tuesday 14 June, 2022
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar announced the draft plan today.
# minimum-wage - Wednesday 12 January, 2022
# ESRI
# ESRI
Following recommendations from the Low Pay Commission, the Irish minimum wage has increased on a yearly basis from 2016 onwards.
# minimum-wage - Monday 11 October, 2021
# Minimum Wage
# Minimum Wage
Ireland has one of the highest levels of low pay in the EU, something we can no longer ignore, writes SIPTU’s Michael Taft.
# minimum-wage - Thursday 23 September, 2021
# Budget 2022
# Budget 2022
The national minimum wage is €10.20 per hour
# minimum-wage - Saturday 1 May, 2021
# Your Say
# Your Say
Young workers have been hardest hit by the pandemic: with 59% of people aged 15-24 unemployed in March.
# minimum-wage - Thursday 15 April, 2021
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
An increase to the ‘living wage’ is in the programme for government.
# minimum-wage - Thursday 8 April, 2021
# Labour Shocks
# Labour Shocks
With cost of living taken into account, Ireland has just the seventh-highest minimum wage in Europe.
# minimum-wage - Thursday 18 February, 2021
# Minimum Wage
# Minimum Wage
There was no evidence that firms reduced their number of employees in response to the minimum wage increase.
# minimum-wage - Tuesday 6 October, 2020
# 10 Cent Rise
# 10 Cent Rise
Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys said 122,000 low-paid workers would benefit from the increase.
# minimum-wage - Wednesday 23 September, 2020
# Pay Dispute
# Pay Dispute
ICTU was unhappy that members would not recommend an increase of more than 1%.
# minimum-wage - Thursday 7 May, 2020
# Low Pay
# Low Pay
Retail, accommodation and food sectors employ half of all minimum wage workers in Ireland.
# minimum-wage - Saturday 1 February, 2020
# Living Wage
# Living Wage
It represents a 3% increase, or an extra 30c an hour.
# minimum-wage - Sunday 19 January, 2020
# Fine Gael
# Fine Gael
The government has defended the ad.
# minimum-wage - Saturday 21 December, 2019
# Week In Numbers
# Week In Numbers
Plus: The average rent of a house in Ireland.
# minimum-wage - Thursday 19 December, 2019
# Extra Pay
# Extra Pay
The proposed introduction was initially deferred because of uncertainty over Brexit.
# minimum-wage - Tuesday 8 October, 2019
# Budget 2020
# Budget 2020
The increase was set to take the minimum wage past the €10 mark for the first time.
# minimum-wage - Thursday 7 March, 2019
# ESRI
# ESRI
Ireland’s minimum hourly wage is more than €2 less than the appropriate living wage recommended in a European Union report.
# minimum-wage - Tuesday 22 January, 2019
# Your Say
# Your Say
€11.90 per hour has been recommended as an appropriate living wage.
# minimum-wage - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
# Minimum Wage
# Minimum Wage
After three weeks of large scale protests, Macron announced last night that the minimum wage would be increased.
# minimum-wage - Wednesday 3 October, 2018
# Low Pay Commission
# Low Pay Commission
Those on minimum wage are more likely to transition to higher pay than remain on the minimum wage, a study showed.
# minimum-wage - Saturday 14 July, 2018
# Your Say
# Your Say
The current minimum wage is €2.35 below the living wage?
# Column
# Column
Other countries seem to manage fine with decent wages, writes Robert Sweeney.
# minimum-wage - Wednesday 18 April, 2018
# Your Say
# Your Say
A previous increase in the rate did not lead to greater unemployment among minimum wage workers.
# Low Pay Commission
# Low Pay Commission
It’s been argued that an increase in the minimum wage would lead to more unemployment among minimum wage workers.
# minimum-wage - Wednesday 6 December, 2017
# Employment
# Employment
The new Bill to be published this week aims to tackle the casualisation of work.
# minimum-wage - Wednesday 1 November, 2017
# Report
# Report
An ESRI report said this was because women were more likely to work in part-time jobs or smaller firms.
# minimum-wage - Tuesday 18 July, 2017
# 30 Cent Richer
# 30 Cent Richer
The ‘living wage’ currently stands at €11.70 an hour.
# minimum-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.
# minimum-wage - Sunday 16 October, 2016
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
FactCheck attempts to referee a post-Budget dispute between a Fine Gael Junior Minister and an AAA-PBP TD.
# minimum-wage - Monday 25 July, 2016
# Your Say
# Your Say
The Low Pay Commission have recommended raising the minimum wage from €9.15 to €9.25,
# Debate Room
# Debate Room
Unite and the Small Firms Association go head to head.
# minimum-wage - Wednesday 15 June, 2016
# Work
# Work
New research has found that most low-paid workers actually live in homes with above-average incomes.
# minimum-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.
# minimum-wage - Monday 4 January, 2016
# Surprise
# Surprise
The wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour last week.
# minimum-wage - Friday 18 December, 2015
# minimum-wage - Tuesday 13 October, 2015
# Fiddy Cent
# Fiddy Cent
It’s an increase of 50c on the old rate.
# minimum-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.
# minimum-wage - Tuesday 21 July, 2015
# No Cents
# No Cents
The Low Pay Commission has issued its report. ISME says there’s “no justifiable economic argument” for the increase.
# minimum-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.
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