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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Sarah Barrett

Calls for government to abolish 'old-fashioned' minimum wage rates for under 20s

The Government has been asked to consider scrapping the minimum pay rates of the national minimum wage, which are paid to young people.

The Mandate Trade Union has called for the removal of the “discriminatory” and “outdated” lower rates.

Mandate claimed that the rates were conceptualised on the false assumptions that younger workers can be subsidised by their parents.

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