Living Wage Varadkar expects ‘significant increase’ in minimum wage next year as new plan announcedThe cabinet has approved a public consultation process on a new method of introducing a living wage for around 137,000 workers
Brian Keegan: How do you fund services without raising taxes? You can raise wagesA wage increase would generate hundreds of millions of euro in tax yield without much political or social pushback
Minimum wage to be increased, Varadkar saysSome 137,000 workers to get a pay rise despite resistance from business groups who say the government has given up on trying to control the cost of living
Government studies options on minimum wage rateICTU calls for increase of 30 cent an hour to €10.50, but employers’ group Isme warns of possible wage spiral
Kevin Callinan: How collective bargaining can benefit staff, employers and the economy Ireland is one of the EU states trying to water down the collective bargaining elements of the proposed EU Directive on Minimum Wage. It’s an ill-advised move on our part
Retail tops list of employment law breaches, WRC findsInspectors from the Workplace Relations Commission identified 1,760 breaches of employment law during 2020
Minimum-wage workers in Ireland among worst hit in Europe by Covid-19, ESRI findsSome 43 per cent of the lowest paid workers here are employed in the accommodation, food, wholesale or retail sectors which have been badly affected by the pandemic