Ireland’s small business association, the SFA (bad choice of acronym!) are trying to grab headlines at the moment with their latest madcap idea. The SFA’s Patricia Callan was on morning radio today advocating that Ireland’s minimum wage should be slashed by 1 euro.
Why?
Seemingly doing this would somehow “save the economy”.
So who exactly is paying a minimum wage anyway?
Who is on a minimum wage?
Wouldn’t doing something about the cost of a loaf of bread or litre of milk be a little bit more useful?
Drawing parallels with other EU states is dumb, as you aren’t comparing like with like.
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