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THE LOW PAY Commission has recommended that sub-minimum wages for teenage workers be abolished by 1 January next year.
The Commission, an independent statutory body tasked with making recommendations to Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Peter Burke on the National Minimum Wage, as well as other issues relating to minimum wages, delivered its recommendations today.
The current minimum wage is €12.70 per hour but the National Minimum Wage Acts allow for lower (sub-minimum) rates for those aged under 20.
The minimum wage for those aged 19 is 90% of the current rate, for those aged 18 it is 80% and for those aged 17 and under it is 70%.
Today’s recommendations are for sub-minimum wages to be abolished for each of those age groups.
Alongside those recommendations, the Commission also said that after these rates have been abolished for two years, a study should be conducted to evaluate if there have been “adverse consequences”, in particular for those aged under 18.
“Should a significant adverse outcome be identified, the study should review the full range of policy options available to Government,” the report said.
It said a subsequent follow-up study should be commissioned four or more years later as well.
It further recommended that consideration is given to how employers with “a substantial proportion of young workers in receipt of sub-minimum wages” can be supported during and after the abolition, if the Department does in fact follow through with its proposal.
Responding to the report, Minister Burke thanks the Low Pay Commission for its “considerable work” and said “this is an important and complex issue that will require detailed examination by Government”.
He said his department would now commission an economic impact assessment and seek legal advice regarding recommendations, adding that a decision would be made “in due course”.
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Perhaps they will learn from the strange ad breaks.
What kind of numbers was ‘ barter account ‘ turbidy pulling in??? More or less??
@Frank Mc Carthy: They should write a musical, called “Toy Show, The Musical! I’d say it would be a sell out.
@Frank Mc Carthy: sure do a bit of research and let us know. Be sure to go back before COVID to get a representative sample, I suggest 2018 to 2024, and present in graphical format please – a simple line graph with time on the x axis should do the trick. Thanks!
@Kevin Kerr: you ‘reaching’ there brenny?
@Frank Mc Carthy: ‘Teaching’ not ‘reaching’. Someone needs to.
@Jack Hayes: “reaching” brenny, simples, lol
@Frank Mc Carthy: translation: do your own effing research
@Kevin Kerr: he doesn’t have time,sure he works full time here on the journal.
It was great the last two years without Tubrity
@den: Your easily pleased
@Sheila McNulty: would you perhaps try to prove that with me Sheila???
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Toy Show is a joke. They say it’s for kids. It’s on at 9.30pm-11.30pm. All the prizes they give away, they give to the adults. Have it on at 7.30 and give the freebees to the kids.
Listen, I’m gay and I refuse to watch RTE. Legally.
@Stephen: I’m straight. I’m going to post that on every article on this site because everyone really cares…
@Stephen: Gay? Perhaps. A bell-end, for sure.
@Donna Fallon: if that’s all Stephen ever posts, you can just mute him/her/them. That’ll save you replying every time.
Btw, thanks for your posts on other articles in general, good reads, always insightful if a bit personal.
@Jerry LeFrog: Oh, be nice.
@Jack Hayes: You’re on again insulting other people and being as offensive as you can be? Wow,you must have a great life looking in the mirror every day and thinking you are the world’s most special gobdaw
@Stephen: it should be “look”, because we’re reading, not listening.
@P. V. Aglue: I’m blind and use Siri to read the page to me. Apologies. Also, I’m not sure if I’m Caucasian. Nobody will tell me.
@Jerry LeFrog: You are so right Jerry… I apologise to Stephen and anyone else who I offended. It’s honestly not in my nature to be rude I don’t know why I was triggered by another person’s posts it just seemed like that contributor was trying to be decisive against sexual orientation.
@Stephen: how’s business at the steel mill, Steve?
Anybody in the audience get any flip flops other than tins of biscuits
I really can’t see what other people can see I thought it was useless as that presenter is no good
Tried watching it on the RTE player but it didn’t work for me, even tried updating it. Can’t understand why RTE can’t sort it out and make it reliable for everyone.
@Doodoo: probably because the IT department is full of nieces and nephews of the RTE mafia.
Utterly incompetent
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