Scrapping rent allowance for garda recruits will 'create friction' in ranks
The GRA said the withdrawal of the allowance would essentially be a pay cut for recruits.
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The GRA said the withdrawal of the allowance would essentially be a pay cut for recruits.
The professional social network said it paid more than $3.3 million in overtime back wages and $2.5 million in damages to workers in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York.
Oxfam said that the Eurozone’s GDP would increase by 13% if women’s paid employment rates were the same.
The Minister for Social Protection was speaking at a leadership debate with rival Alex White.
The small business trade body said that an increase in wages could force many businesses under.
The workers staged a sit-in at the premises for 19 days in total.
Union president Joe O’Connor said that schemes such as JobBridge had led to “a very, very employer friendly market”.
A rally to support the workers will take place outside Leinster House this afternoon.
The education sector is again the biggest loser in the earnings stats for the first quarter.
The workers will sit down with one of the two owners of the company today about wages they are owed.
Staff at the Paris Bakery on Moore Street have been holding a sit-in.
Workers at Paris Bakery are into their second day at the sit-in outside the Dublin bakery.
Gardaí have been called to the Paris Bakery on Moore St.
Mandate General Secretary John Douglas said workers who work for companies making substantial profits now deserve a pay increase.
Quarterly bulletin finds that drop in unemployment is ‘clearest indicator’ of improving economic fortunes.
The annual report also outlines cost savings of €30 million are to be introduced.
McDonald’s Corporation faces seven lawsuits, while franchisees were included in five of them in California, Michigan and New York.
The term ‘working poor’ should be an oxymoron but it’s a reality in Ireland – a wage increase is desperately needed, writes Jimmy Kelly.
If you earned €687 a week last year, you are average.
But income gaps are skewing analysis of the income average according to the Nevin Economic Research Centre.
Trade unions welcomed the decision, but Ibec was less enthusiastic.
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.
Premiership Rugby has announced that their clubs will be operating under a boosted wage limit from 2014/15.
Workers claim there is pay inequity between them and a number of their counterparts in UCC who are doing the same job.
The problems are believed to be unrelated from the ATM problems that plagued customers last month.
A number of ministers explained that their advisers had previously been on much higher pay scales when working in the private sector prior to their appointment in the respective departments.
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Gardaí said a chief superintendent has been appointed to investigate the claims.
The Social Protection Minister has made the case for a wage increase that she argues would reduce welfare spend and increase tax revenue.
There are many reasons why a Swiss-like pay proposal is a bad one. For one, the top one per cent of income earners in Ireland pay 20 per cent of the income tax, writes Aaron McKenna.
Gardaí will now have to wait until January to receive the payments earned in November.
The radical proposal will be voted on next week in a referendum.
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This figure compares to over one million euro that Brian Cowen paid in special adviser salaries when he was Taoiseach.
The INMO said that interns are being asked to increase their hours while only being paid 50 per cent of the staff rate of pay.
ISME praised the adoption of a voluntary code on prompt payments by SMEs – but says big business must be forced to agree to the code in order to improve the cash-flow of smaller operations.
In the three years to 2012, total annual earnings have fallen by €4 billion or -6.7 per cent.
Overall pay rose by 0.4pc, according to Eurostat – but if you don’t work in a professional industry, it probably fell.
The small and medium-sized firms’ body says increasing the minimum wage forces employers to pay more than the going rate.