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Minimum Wage reversal?

Written by Joerg Steegmueller
Minimum Wage reversal?

Enda Kenny has announced today that the government would reverse the reduction of the minimum wage and would bring it back up to EUR 8.56 by the summer.
I am surprised about that! Sure, 1 Euro per hour amounts to EUR 40 per week or EUR 160 per month and if someone is on minimum wage then this is a fairly significant amount, but there have been reductions in a number of other prices and cost, so I guess the minimum wage wouldn’t HAVE to go up the full amount!?

Restaurants are now saying that they can only accept the reversal if other workplace agreements will change, but aren’t rent and rates the biggest problem for restaurants? It can’t be that the 1 Euro per hour will kill the business!

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Hello world!

Written by Joerg Steegmueller
Hello world!

Every week I write a big blog-style newsletter, the “Dublin Event Guide (for Free Events)”.

In this newsletter, which currently is sent to more than 8000 subscribers every week, I have one section that is called “This Is ODD!!” where I write about things that strike me as odd and strange.

Often there are things in the world of politics that I find odd, but because the newsletter is about free events in Dublin, I usually don’t write about my opinion of Irish (and other) politics toooo often.

However, I am extremely interested in politics and Irish politics is often very odd! So, this new blog will be my outlet. Sometimes a valve to let off steam, other times a critical assessment and other times again, it will describe what I would do if I were in charge. :-)

Let me know if you like what you read. Let me know as well if you don’t, but just to stress one thing: This is MY opinion and you are absolutely free to disagree, but it will still be my opinion. :-)

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