“We broadly welcome the Report of the Independent Review of Employment Regulation Orders and Registered Employment Agreement Wage-Setting Mechanisms. In particular, the recommendation that the basic JLC framework should be retained is good news for many thousands of low-paid workers. We also endorse the conclusion reached by Kevin Duffy and Frank Walsh that reducing JLC rates to the minimum wage level would have important distributional consequences without having any substantial effect on employment.
“We are concerned that recent proposals reportedly made by Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton are not in line with the Duffy-Walsh report [...]"
Click here to read the rest of the statement issued today by 36 economists, economic analysts and social scientists, all members of the TASC Economists' Network.
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