Tag: Tax Credits
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National Minimum Wage should increase to a Living Wage for all
Unite blasts inadequacy of today’s minimum wage increase as well as Tory ‘sham’ Living Wage Employers such as Lidl must treat Northern Ireland workers on basis of equality October 1st: Jimmy Kelly, Ireland Secretary, expressed his union’s dismay at the miserly increase in the UK National Minimum Wage which comes into effect today (October 1st):…
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Osborne’s onslaught on tax credits will disproportionately impact Northern Ireland
If adopted in Northern Ireland, plans to scrap student maintenance grants would exclude a generation of working class youth from higher education Unite will initiate a campaign to raise wages and maintain workers’ income through industrial action July 8th: Speaking from the ICTU Biennial Delegates Conference in Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland Secretary for Unite, Jimmy…