# Minimum Wage

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# JLCs

Minimum wage reforms spark 'outrage' among employers

The Government earlier announced plans to overhaul the JLC system for setting basic pay rates.

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Dec 22nd 2011, 8:52 PM

# Employment

Bruton publishes plans to reform JLC wage system

Jobs minister Richard Bruton unveils plans to reinforce the Joint Labour Committee system that was ruled unconstitutional in July.

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Dec 22nd 2011, 1:14 PM

Voices

Column: We can save thousands of jobs without cutting wages. Here's how

Reducing pay rates won’t help tackle unemployment – but there is another way, argues think-tank director Nat O’Connor.

Jun 27th 2011, 6:56 PM

# Welfare

Bill to reinstate minimum wage and raise pension age passes Dáil

The age at which a worker is entitled to a State pension will rise to 68 by 2028.

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Jun 16th 2011, 3:49 PM

# 100 Days

Government marks first 100 days in office

The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste will hold a joint press conference later today to mark the occasion.

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Jun 16th 2011, 7:28 AM

Voices

Column: The minimum wage isn't about equality, it's an unfair tax on young men

Raising the hourly rate will leave Ireland’s marginalised youths on the dole – if it doesn’t force them to leave altogether, writes author and economist Gerard O’Neill.

Jun 1st 2011, 9:56 AM

# labour laws

Restaurants chief calls for end to "ridiculous 1940s" style Sunday pay premium

CEO of Irish Restaurants Association says Sunday premium paid to workers is crippling industry – while employees’ union and Joan Burton fear proposal to cut it will lead to hardship for low-earners.

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May 26th 2011, 4:12 PM

Voices

Column: Jobseekers are treated like monkeys by companies paying peanuts

The unemployed are forced to jump through humiliating hoops to get work – at a minimum wage that isn’t just callous but insane, writes blogger Lisa McInerney.

May 10th 2011, 7:44 AM

LIVE

Government to announce revised terms of Ireland's bailout

The government will be accompanied by the EU and IMF representatives in announcing changes that are set to include the reversal of the minimum wage cut.

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Apr 15th 2011, 7:55 AM

LIVE

Public sector "not fit-for-purpose" and in need for reform according to minister

The comments of Brendan Howlin came as it emerged that the minimum wage is to be restored to €8.65.

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Apr 14th 2011, 7:26 AM

# Minimum Wage

Kenny: No date for reversal of minimum wage cut

The Taoiseach has said that an exact date for a reversal of the minimum wage cut could not be set.

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Mar 30th 2011, 2:44 PM

# SAHP

Revealed: the real value of a stay-at-home parent

All that cooking, cleaning and chauffering adds up to a gross domestic output of €39,182.

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Mar 28th 2011, 9:46 AM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Nine things you really need to know by 9am: Labour’s cabinet consolation, Ireland’s personal debt crisis, and a cruel crime against Ireland’s cricketers.

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Mar 8th 2011, 8:15 AM

# Minimum Wage

Small Firms Association criticises coalition proposal to reverse minimum wage cut

The SFA is cautiously welcoming the programme for government which is its says is “good and bad for small firms”.

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Mar 7th 2011, 1:57 PM

# Catholic Bishops

Catholic bishops warn of violence in aftermath of financial crisis

The bishops have criticised cuts in the minimum wage and say that the new government needs to learn from the “wrongs of the past”.

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Feb 22nd 2011, 3:00 PM

# Minimum Wage

#minimum wage

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Dec 10th 2010, 1:23 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Should the minimum wage be cut by €1?

Budget 2011 will see the minimum wage cut to €7.65 an hour. Have your say on whether this is a fair measure.

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Dec 10th 2010, 9:21 AM

# Budget11

Budget 2011: Final Bill comes before Dáil today

Bill which sees minimum wage cut by a euro, reduces the salaries of the Taoiseach and ministers, and reduces public service pensions is expected to pass Dáil vote today.

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Dec 10th 2010, 8:33 AM

FG and Labour launch alternative budget proposals

Fine Gael would hold off on increases to income tax until the economic recovery creates new jobs, according to its budget plan.

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Dec 3rd 2010, 12:29 PM

# Four Year Plan

Further coalition fallout over cut to minimum wage

Mary Coughlan says the €1/hr cut to the minimum wage was the government’s own choice – contradicting John Gormley.

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Nov 26th 2010, 2:08 PM

# Four Year Plan

Trade Unions slam minimum wage cut and tax hikes

The Mandate trade union blasts the “double whammy” of cutting wages for the worst off, while also taxing them.

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Nov 24th 2010, 4:18 PM

# Man Tax

IMF suggests cutting tax - but just for women

A cut in taxes for women would increase GDP, says the IMF.

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Nov 23rd 2010, 8:34 AM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: the bailout’s on (or maybe it’s not); Sarah Palin’s new reality show airs in the US – and do the unemployed really earn more than the average industrial wage?

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Nov 15th 2010, 8:35 AM