Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Low Pay Commission Recommendations on the National Minimum Wage: Discussion
Dr. Frank Walsh:
In the report, we have the sectoral breakdown and also a lot of detail on occupations and sectors. They tend to be the ones we would expect and, for example, food, accommodation and retail tend to be the sectors with the highest share of minimum wage workers. What happened in the commission with regard to the supports was that we initially asked that the Labour Employer Economic Forum, LEEF, group would look at specific supports that might be made to target this. More recently, it has been decided that the commission itself is going to try to make specific recommendations or is certainly going to make an effort to make some recommendations. Obviously, we can just give advice and we have no official role, but we are certainly happy to try to do that.
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