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MINIMUM WAGE REFORMS unveiled by the Government earlier today have come under fire from employers’ groups and Opposition parties.
The Restaurants Association of Ireland said it was “outraged” at the proposals put forward by jobs minister Richard Bruton, which would reintroduce the Joint Labour Committee system in a different form.
Under the draft legislation, JLCs in a number of industrial sectors would have the power to set a minimum rate of pay, with higher rates based on length of service and skills required.
The government called the proposals a “radical overhaul” of JLCs, which were ruled unconstitutional in their previous form earlier this year.
However, the Irish Hotels Federation said JLCs were “an outdated and regressive employment framework”. Its CEO Tim Fenn said the new laws would be “an impediment to job creation” by imposing “excessive wage demands”.
He added that the statutory minimum wage of €8.65 should apply across the board, rather than different sectors having potentially different rates.
Restaurants Association of Ireland chief executive Adrian Cummins said the group would be asking its constitutional lawyers to examine the proposals. He said JLCs were “anti-business”.
Meanwhile, Sinn Féin jobs spokesman Peadar Tóibín warned the new rules could lead to a reduction in employees’ pay in some cases, as they do not contain special protections for Sunday pay and anti-social hours.
Trade union Mandate also said that Sunday premiums should be included, but added that the new legislation was “progress” on implementing a system to “protect low-paid workers”.
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Well done to asti they stood up to this evil government
Let’s hope they continue to do so.
Asking the membership to vote on the SAME issue for a third time in quick succession would be a disgrace & if it happens, many members will stop paying their union subs.
Listen to your membership, not this toxic government with their acts of coercion they call “agreements”
They should be ashamed of them selves lazy sods
To whom are you referring?
Never met a non lazy union member
Fire them 10 at a time until they mend their ways and egos
Probably just a bowel movement.
A1
ASTI realises it is out on a limb,looking at Quinner with the saw.
Hardly. Quinn wouldn’t know how to use a saw. A sledgehammer is more his style
These teaches sicken me and any other hard working person in ireland. They don’t even know how easy they have it.
Wbat plandt are you on?? imagine dealing with likes of you tines 30!
Why do I think this is the union leadership (clueless of the realities of teaching) are selling us down the river !!
Can’t see how they can change the croke park/ haddington road deal sufficiently to make me want to vote for it ! The ability to carte blanche changes to my contract on the future without negotiation is enough of a reason to say no – no private sector worker would accept it so why should I !!
If they try to re-ballot us yet again then that will signal the end of the Asti as a union because they will not have any members left
Kenneth’s obviously just a troll; don’t feed him!
A slave more like
Perfectly happy with the status quo. No to Haddington Road. No to pointless Croke Park hours. No to unpaid S and S. No to any further erosion of our terms of employment.
No escalation in industrial action by the ASTI members, yet Min Quinn has not introduced legislation to block supervision & substitution payments that TUI members no longer receive.
The “open-day season” has come and gone and complaints by irate parents seem to have died down.
All quiet on the Western Front?
If ASTI unwilling to perform their jobs to the required standard, they should all be replaced. Plenty if NQTs who can’t get a sniff of a job. I’m sure they would be willing to perform the tasks required of them. ASTI are out of touch with reality. Hiding behind this “out of concern for the children” rubbish. They are only concerned with feathering their own nests. Given that they have 4.5 months holiday, their pay per hour actually worked is one of the highest in the state, yet still they think they are entitled to be shielded from the recession. Why?……..because they have an Arts degree?
The ASTI members would have been better off renouncing the supervision-and-substitution payments and refusing to the Croke Park/Haddington Road hours.
Possibly, but then schools would have closed, something most teachers don’t want to see happen, I know I don’t.
They’ve imposed draconian measures on us, grand, now feck off and let us teach, unless they want meaningful conversation on JC reform & “extra hours”
@Liam H
“but then schools would have closed”
Not necessarily. What I meant is that they could do S&S without payment. S&S are hardly stressful tasks. Schools have a duty of care towards pupils.
Your being led into a dead end
By noise makers and lads that dont
Seem to grasp the reality of the situation.
If only the.private sector enjoyed the same protection. . But hey. .divide and conquer
If only the public sector could get the same wage increases as the private sector received!!
Here here Des !!!!!
Ill put it another way to these
Lads..enough faffing around
All out strike or take your bite
Of the huge shit sandwich
Like everybody else
have your say