Image: Shutterstock/Kunyakon Moonlapong Image: Shutterstock/Kunyakon Moonlapong THE MINIMUM WAGE has increased by 95 cent an hour from today.
The hourly rate is rising to €10.10 from €9.15 – that rate was introduced in 2016. Up to 127,000 workers are set to benefit from the increase, according to the Department of Social Protection. Regina Doherty said of the increase: “Since 2016, a minimum wage employee working a 39-hour week has received a gross pay increase of €2,331. Since 2015, we have increased the minimum wage by 13.2% – ahead of the rate of inflation.”
Ireland now has the third highest hourly national minimum wage rate in the EU. However, the living wage in Ireland for 2019 is €12.30 an hour. Sinn Féin, Labour and People Before Profit are in favour of increasing the minimum wage to match the living wage.Its spokesperson for Workers’ Rights Maurice Quinlivan said that it was a “small increase of 3% in the minimum wage will be immediately swallowed up by costs this government have let spiral out of control, including rent, insurance premiums and childcare costs”.
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