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National Minimum Wage (Removal of Sub-minimum Rates of Pay) Bill 2021
- Sponsor
- Paul Gavan · Sinn Féin
- Introduced
- 5 Jul 2021
- Last updated
- 30 Jan 2025
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Amends National Minimum Wage Act 2000 to remove lower pay rates for 16-year-olds and new employees in first two years.
- All affected workers would receive the standard minimum wage instead of current reduced rates.
- Bill did not progress beyond First Stage introduction in Seanad; lapsed without becoming law.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage26th Seanad5 Jul 2021
Debates
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