{"id":5542,"date":"2026-04-29T08:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5542"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:23:00","slug":"equal-pay-for-equal-work-shouldnt-be-a-radical-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/equal-pay-for-equal-work-shouldnt-be-a-radical-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal pay for equal work shouldn\u2019t be a radical concept"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that we must not only bring the minimum wage into line with the living wage, but also reverse the decision to delay its introduction until 2029 and abolish the age-based discrimination when it comes to the minimum wage. <br \/><br \/>Speaking in the D\u00e1il last night, Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cOne quarter of jobs in this State are classified as involving low pay, insecurity and poor working conditions. The best way to increase pay, productivity and employee retention is through trade unions and collective bargaining. This is especially true at a time when rising inflation and external shocks are having a deep impact on living standards and affordability for workers and their families. I have been a member of a trade union, the ITGWU and SIPTU, long before I ever became a TD.<br \/><br \/>\u201cOne third of workers under 20 years are making less than the minimum wage. Why does an 18-year-old hold less value than a 21-year-old? It is simply a licence for businesses to exploit the labour of the young. They face the same cost-of-living crisis as other workers, fuel prices and rent costs among them. The Government is condemning another generation of young workers to live with their parents, denying them a start of life of their own until they are in their 30s or 40s. It will not come as a shock or surprise that this Government has kicked the can down the road on abolishing sub-minimum rates of pay for young people until 2029. If only it were so simple to defer the cost-of-living crisis.<br \/><br \/>\u201cEqual pay for equal work was a radical concept more than 100 years ago. It should be the norm for men and women in the 21st century. All workers deserve fairness, dignity and respect for their rights, regardless of their age or gender. We must not only bring the minimum wage into line with the living wage but also reverse the decision to delay its introduction until 2029.\u201d<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that we must not only bring the minimum wage into line with the living wage, but also reverse the decision to delay its introduction until 2029 and abolish the age-based discrimination when it comes to the minimum wage. Speaking in the D\u00e1il last night, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5543,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}