Minimum wage to increase to €14.15 an hour and auto-enrolment pension scheme to begin on New Year’s Day

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/12/30/explainer-changes-to-wage-packets-coming-on-new-years-day/

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10 Comments

  1. Auto enrolment, what a joke, probably won’t give it to us anyway when the time comes. If it comes

  2. sweetsuffrinjasus on

    Why was no one yet copped that the purpose of this scheme is to keep the party going for those in retirement (and those within 5 years of retirement)?

    Why don’t people realise this? Has anyone actually ran the numbers or looked at the detail? It’s a massive, massive con. It’s like your dog staring you right in the eye, and without breaking eye contact he shits right on your carpet, and then takes a few treats to head out the back while you (and your partner, as you need a double income to stand still now) return to the desk.

    The public servant class has absolutely torn you a brand new 2-bed 2-bath 3-car garage wide arsehole if you are under 35 today. And you are doing nothing about it.

    Our most capable generation, and smartest kids, and you are being rode sideways by a pensioned-up public servant class.

  3. Keep the party going to for the recently and soon to be retired after they rode the country dry.

    Brand new tax for the plebs who can’t afford a place to live and won’t get a state pension until they’re 75, if at all.

    Let’s keep voting FFG and keep the recovery going!

  4. Important-Messages on

    Still a bit low, if you compare this to the uk’s new rate (£12.21), using a typical fx rate of 0.85, it’s only worth £12.03.

    However the uk is much cheaper to live in, with less charges, overheads and bills.

  5. This is effectively a new tax. We pay an insane amount of taxes in this country it is shocking and we don’t ever push back for greater transparency and accountability when they waste our money.