Mary Mitchell O'Connor, the jobs minister, is embroiled in a row with the Low Pay Commission over the pledge LEON FARRELL/ROLLING NEWSThe government should ignore the Low Pay Commission and press ahead with plans to raise the minimum wage to €10.50 by 2021, a Fine Gael TD has said. The Sunday Times reported yesterday that the government had effectively abandoned its pledge after the Low Pay Commission (LPC) demanded a guarantee of its independence in May and suspended all its work calculating this year’s wage increase. In July, the LPC eventually recommended to the government that 70,000 workers on the national minimum wage should receive a rise of 10 cents an hour, taking the hourly rate up to €9.25.

Source: The Times August 14, 2016 23:03 UTC