Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (Resumed)

4:00 pm

Photo of Kevin HumphreysKevin Humphreys (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am not talking about overtime. It is a shift rate for working unsocial hours. Otherwise, there is a depressing cost on the market. If somebody is brought in and paid €27,500 to work unsocial hours and an Irish meat deboner is working for €27,500 in addition to remuneration for working unsocial hours, a shift premium, the Department is causing a problem in respect of the market. It is depressing the salaries.

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