Ikea to introduce minimum wage of €11.50 per hour

Joan burton reckons a 50 cent an hour increase in min wage will leave an employee €1000/year better off :rolleyes: What she forgets to mention is that it's before tax.

steddyeddy wrote: »

The problem is that IT became so fashionable that too many people trained in IT. The same will happen to science in a few years.

When I went into college, the IT courses in Universities mostly didn't fill up in the first two rounds. Some even went AQA. 2 years later there were campaigns to get more young people to do IT related courses in college because there were 14k vacancies in Ireland. (Yes, 14,000!)

When I graduated. The average pay was about 26k a year for a graduate...so, in fairness...24k wouldn't be a bad drop. The last of my friends that went through an IT course was about 3 years ago...they were getting 19k a year! If all of the targeted advertising is anything to go by...Ireland is still crying out for IT workers both graduates and experienced but who, with experience would want to work there when you're being offered peanuts...

Ireland is getting into a dangerous place. Graduates are starting on nothing or moving abroad. People who lost their jobs are either taking a big reduction in pay to get a new job or are leaving. The price of living has not come down at the same rate as pay...could be a lost generation...