# National Minimum Wage

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2022

# Minimum Wage

Govt expected to approve 80 cent increase in minimum wage

It’s understood that the minimum wage will rise from €10.50 to €11.30 an hour.

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Sep 13th 2022, 10:26 PM

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# Extra pay

Minimum wage to increase to €10.10 per hour from February

The proposed introduction was initially deferred because of uncertainty over Brexit.

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Dec 19th 2019, 1:45 PM

# National Minimum Wage

What is the least money you should get for an hour's work?

The Low Pay Commission has began asking for submissions on changing the national minimum wage.

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Mar 9th 2015, 12:17 PM

# Cash Money

Minister: It's time to increase the minimum wage and here's how we'll do it

Ged Nash on why the Low Pay Commission is being set up and why the minimum wage should rise.

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Dec 16th 2014, 11:36 AM

# 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

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

# 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