National Minimum Wage National Standard Order, 2022

L.N. 334 of 2022

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

National Minimum Wage National Standard Order, 2022

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 4 of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister responsible for

employment and industrial relations, on the recommendation of the

Employment Relations Board, has made the following order:-

(1) The title of this order is the National Minimum Wage

commencement.

National Standard Order, 2022.

This order shall come into force on the 1 st January, 2023.

(2)

The national minimum wage per week related to a normal

working week shall be as follows

Age eighteen (18) years and over

€192.73

Age seventeen (17) years

€185.95

Under seventeen (17) years

€183.11

The national minimum wage of part-time employees shall

be calculated pro rata at the same hourly rate of a comparable whole-

time employee as applicable in accordance with the minimum wage of

the relevant Wage Regulation Order, or in cases where a Wage

Regulation Order is not applicable, at an hourly rate not below the

National Standard Minimum Wage applicable, as determined in

accordance with the preceding article and divided by forty (40).

When any Wages Council Wage Regulation Order applies

to any employee, the wages payable to such employee in respect of

2023 shall not be less than those laid down by such Wages Council

Wage Regulation Order applicable for 2022, adjusted for cost of living

by any increases of wages declared to be generally applicable to all

whole-time employees in accordance with article 8 of the Employment

and Industrial Relations Act, or by any wage increases for cost of

living laid down by any national standard order applicable in respect

of 2023.

€0.09