{"id":1832,"date":"2022-06-14T17:23:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T16:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/the-government-has-abandoned-its-living-wage-commitment\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T17:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T16:23:53","slug":"the-government-has-abandoned-its-living-wage-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/the-government-has-abandoned-its-living-wage-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Government Has Abandoned Its Living Wage Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>What does it say about this government when the Tories have a more generous approach to the living wage than it does?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The government has abandoned its commitment to introduce a living wage that people can actually live on, according to Social Democrats co-leader and Finance Spokesperson R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen this government came to power, it promised to introduce a living wage over the lifetime of this government. Last year, the living wage was calculated at \u20ac12.90 \u2013 a figure that was arrived at before the current huge spike in inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, the government tells us that it plans to introduce a living wage of just \u20ac12.17 and reach that lesser target over the next four years \u2013 by 2026. This is less than today\u2019s living wage and means the government has abandoned its commitment to introduce a living wage that people can actually live on \u2013 within the lifetime of this government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government, instead of adopting the living wage calculation that has always prevailed in Ireland \u2013 the Minimum Essential Standard of Living (MESL) \u2013 has chosen to define a living wage as 60pc of the median wage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tory government, when it introduced a living wage in 2016, set it at 60pc of the median wage. That has now changed. The living wage in the UK will move to 66pc of the median wage by 2024 \u2013 two years before the lesser living wage comes into force here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it say about this government\u2019s commitment to reduce in-work poverty, when the Tories have a more generous approach to the living wage than it does?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Social Democrats, in our alternative budget last year, set out a pathway for the introduction of a living wage, at the full MESL rate, by 2025. Unlike the government, we will not resile from that commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>14 June, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it say about this government when the Tories have a more generous approach to the living wage than it does? 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