NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE NATIONAL STANDARD ORDER

NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE NATIONAL STANDARD

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 452.129

NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE NATIONAL

STANDARD ORDER

1 st January, 2023

LEGAL NOTICE 334 of 2022.

The title of this order is the National Minimum Wage

National Standard Order.

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.