# Minimum Wage

All time

# surprise

Business owners are not happy about the new minimum wage

The wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour last week.

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Jan 4th 2016, 6:10 AM

# extra cash

Joan: Increasing minimum wage by €2 is 'horse sense'

Which means good.

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Dec 18th 2015, 6:06 AM

# fiddy cent

The minimum wage is going up to €9.15 per hour

It’s an increase of 50c on the old rate.

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Oct 13th 2015, 3:38 PM

# Living wage

Poll: Should the minimum wage be raised to €11.50 an hour?

This is the estimated rate a person needs to earn to afford a decent standard of living.

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Sep 30th 2015, 8:00 PM

# no cents

Business groups are lining up to pour scorn on the coalition's minimum wage plans

The Low Pay Commission has issued its report. ISME says there’s “no justifiable economic argument” for the increase.

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Jul 21st 2015, 10:27 PM

# the payoff

Another 50c an hour 'won't help families with spiralling rents and extra taxes'

But business groups are against any rise in the minimum wage.

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Jul 20th 2015, 5:14 PM

# swede as a nut

Ikea is going to pay the living wage for all its Irish workers

The flat-pack furniture chain has committed to “meaningful” pay for staff.

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Jul 20th 2015, 12:26 PM

# Poll

Poll: Should the minimum wage be raised?

ISME said an increase would have a “substantial knock-on effects for businesses”.

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Jul 19th 2015, 11:48 AM

# enough to live on

Should the minimum wage be raised to €11.50 an hour?

The support to increase the minimum wage has been described as “overwhelming”.

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Jul 14th 2015, 12:18 PM

# Ready To Rumble

An election-ready Sinn Féin wants to raise wages by €1 and cut politicians' pay

Sinn Féin is embarking on a national campaign to inform voters as it believes an election is imminent.

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Jul 4th 2015, 10:00 AM

# Money Money Money

The Irish minimum wage? It could be worse, you could live in Mexico...

Ireland’s low pay standard finishes quite high up the OECD rankings.

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May 8th 2015, 6:04 AM

# D'oh!

Ireland is losing its competitive edge

The country is still an expensive place to do business.

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Apr 24th 2015, 12:07 PM

# Minimum Wage

This CEO has cut his own salary and made the minimum wage at his company $70,000

Nice work if you can get it.

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Apr 15th 2015, 10:33 PM

# we're not partying

Saying jobs are only being created in Dublin is 'highly misleading'

One in four workers earn less than the living wage, new research has found.

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Mar 19th 2015, 5:45 PM

# counting pennies

The UK's minimum wage has just gone up...

Only by 20p though. Is Ireland about to follow the UK’s example? And by how much if so?

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Mar 18th 2015, 5:58 PM

# think bigger

Ireland should 'embrace' a population of 10 million

And business group Ibec wants more money for infrastructure to cope with the growth.

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Mar 4th 2015, 9:30 AM

Voices

Enda thinks his €185k salary is 'cut to the bone'? Don't tell him about zero hour contracts...

… or what it’s like living on the minimum wage.

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Mar 2nd 2015, 10:57 PM

Voices

Opinion: Raising the minimum wage sounds nice, but it could price young people out of work

A substantial minimum wage rise right now would be a very hollow victory if it meant that businesses couldn’t remain competitive and collapsed.

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Feb 6th 2015, 8:00 AM

# pay rise

Siptu wants the minimum wage to be €11.45 an hour

And pay rises for all.

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Jan 31st 2015, 2:30 PM

# Pounds and Pence

What can the minimum wage buy you in Ireland?

We checked. It doesn’t go very far.

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Jan 18th 2015, 7:45 AM

# Prime Numbers

Twink, Superquinn sausages, Irish Water, and punts: Ireland by numbers in 2014

How many pigs are in Ireland? How many people are paid minimum wage? So many questions…

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Dec 20th 2014, 7:30 PM

# Cash Money

Here's some good news if you earn the minimum wage

A new Low Pay Commission is being set up to examine the current rate of €8.65 and whether it should be increased.

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Dec 15th 2014, 1:10 PM

Voices

Opinion: When the people lead, politicians are forced to follow – so let's make our voices heard

We need a solution for our water needs – but one that doesn’t include creative accounting, cronyism, and possible privatisation.

Dec 9th 2014, 8:00 PM

# pay increases

Minister: Strong argument for raising the minimum wage as economy recovers

Ged Nash has been explaining what the Low Pay Commission is all about.

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Sep 18th 2014, 3:35 PM

# Austerity

Young Fine Gael wants to reduce the minimum wage by €2 per hour

Despite explanations that the youth wing doesn’t want workers to lose money, people are not impressed.

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Jun 19th 2014, 4:54 PM

# hustings

'We should not fear increases in the minimum wage.' - Joan Burton links recovery with wages

The Minister for Social Protection was speaking at a leadership debate with rival Alex White.

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Jun 14th 2014, 4:07 PM

# Vote

€18 minimum wage? No thanks, say Swiss

Only 23 percent of Swiss voters came out in favour of introducing a minimum wage of €18, according to a projection of today’s referendum results.

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May 18th 2014, 3:39 PM

# Geneva

Case Study: One woman who can't live in Geneva on her €2,790 monthly pay packet

Some people travel across the French border to do their weekly shop.

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May 18th 2014, 7:20 AM

# expensive

Swiss to decide if their minimum wage should be €18

Before you read on, bear in mind that Geneva tops the world’s Club Sandwich Index.

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May 18th 2014, 7:15 AM

Voices

Opinion: We want to see an increase in wages – and respect – for fast food workers

Low-paid, zero hour contracts are on the rise globally, leaving workers without stability or decent quality of life.

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May 15th 2014, 8:00 AM

# Minimum Wage

'A good day for low-paid workers' as JLCs are retained

Trade unions welcomed the decision, but Ibec was less enthusiastic.

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Jan 29th 2014, 8:30 PM

# Social Welfare

Burton calls for 'living wage' and says welfare state makes employers 'efficient'

The Minister for Social Protection has made a significant speech on the welfare state today.

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Nov 2nd 2013, 4:10 PM

# Psychology

Why being overworked can feel like being poor

It’s a “critical scarcity” thing – and it affects your capacity to handle other problems.

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Sep 22nd 2013, 6:30 PM

Voices

Column: Germany – the big kid who won’t play by the same rules

Germany is the EU’s largest economy yet it has no national minimum wage; and its policy of maintaining low wages and subsidising exports into EU member States is destabilising to the EU economy, writes Tiernan Brady.

Sep 20th 2013, 7:00 AM

# Minimum Wage

Nurses and midwives: The HSE is breaking minimum wage law

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.

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Jul 16th 2013, 10:04 PM

# Employment

Richard Bruton: I'm not going to raise the minimum wage

Richard Bruton rules out any immediate adjustments to the minimum wage rate despite recent comments from Cabinet colleague Joan Burton.

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Jul 14th 2013, 7:30 AM

# Minimum Wage

‘Put her back in her box’: ISME slams Burton’s call to raise minimum wage

The small and medium-sized firms’ body says increasing the minimum wage forces employers to pay more than the going rate.

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Jun 16th 2013, 4:30 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Should we increase the minimum wage?

Minister Joan Burton has called for a rise in the current wage of €8.65 per hour. Do you agree with her?

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Jun 16th 2013, 10:09 AM

# Protest

United Left Alliance ‘tripping over themselves with hypocrisy’ – Labour TD

Colm Keaveney says that the alliance of left-wing parties in the Dáil stands for nothing but People Before Profit’s Joan Collins accused him of being “disingenuous”.

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Apr 14th 2012, 7:45 AM

# Hard up

Four in ten see 'no future for themselves' in Ireland - survey

More than half of households are now struggling to pay basic bills, according to new figures from the Irish League of Credit Unions.

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Jan 9th 2012, 8:44 AM