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Green Party councillor Malcolm Noonan has criticised the Finance Minister’s recent comments advising people to ‘get shopping’ amid reports that further cuts are in the pipeline for low paid workers and changes are likely in wage agreements for the lower paid.

Green Party councillor Malcolm Noonan has criticised the Finance Minister’s recent comments advising people to ‘get shopping’ amid reports that further cuts are in the pipeline for low paid workers and changes are likely in wage agreements for the lower paid.

The hotel industry offers huge potential for creating employment if it is allowed a sustainable cost structure, according to the chairman of the Galway branch of the Irish Hotels Federation. Paul Gill has called on local TDs to support the abolition of the Joint Labour Committee system, stating that their additional layer is incompatible with jobs growth when allied to our minimum wage, currently the third highest in Europe.

The Mayo branch of the Irish Hotels Federation has called on Irish banks to deliver on their obligations under the Government recapitalisation scheme and immediately increase the flow of lending to small and medium enterprises. John Raftery, chairman, Mayo branch, IHF highlighted the lack of funding and stated that action taken by the Government has so far failed to deliver for the hotel sector any significant increase in credit facilities.

The system that determines the pay and conditions for about 170,000 workers in the country is out of date, totally inappropriate for the current economic circumstances and in need of a radical overhaul, according to IBEC.

The Minister for Labour Affairs Dara Calleary has welcomed the adoption of proposals by the Hotels Joint Labour Committee that will bring Sunday premium payments for workers in the hotel sector outside Dublin and Cork into line with the new rates recently agreed for catering establishments throughout the country. Under the proposals, the existing entitlement to payment of double time for Sunday work will be replaced by a rate of time plus one third.

Many strands of Irish businesses wasted little time this week in hitting out at the new national wage agreement struck early on Wednesday morning, saying that the propsoed wage increases could represent the final nail in the coffin for many small to medium businesses.