Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Committee Stage
2:00 pm
Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Amendment No. 4 does not make any sense, in my view. It would appear that it proposes a separate minimum hourly pay for young people and women. This is not a proposal we could support. We deal with income disparity between men and women in one of our amendments. I do not agree with separate provisions for men and women.
I refer to amendment No. 3 which proposes to insert an hourly living wage rate of pay. This amendment provides a requirement for the commission not only to make an annual recommendation to the Minister on the national minimum wage, but also on the living wage.
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