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RTE Prime Time, Tues Oct 28th (Living Wage)

  • 29-10-2014 9:12am
    #1
    horsebox7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭


    Last nights episode of Prime Time was about the voluntary introduction of a "living wage" it was in the region of €11.65 per hour. The current minimum wage is in the region of €8.65 per hour. A representative for the retail industry said that part of the challenge in having the ability to pay workers a living wage is that commercial rates have increased. Where did these figures come from? This point went totally unchallenged on the show.


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  • #2
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,266 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    It wasn't a great debate I thought.

    Don't know why the restaurateur didn't say if he's 10 staff on 8.65 now working 30 hours a week that he'd have to bring in an extra 47k a year or so.


  • #3
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    We have that here in work, it's currently $18.80 or so compared to minimum wage of $14.25 (NZ)

    I hate the concept of it tbh, it achieve nothing in reality apart from making everything more expensive and further driving the cycle. You still have to bench everyone in the company off that higher rate or pay the lower paid disproportionally higher wages for their work.


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