A local Senator has called for the national minimum wage to be extended to young workers, apprentices and interns.
Sligo-Leitrim Senator Nessa Cosgrove told the Seanad apprentices, interns and young people continue to face unfairly low wages, with some first-year apprentices earning far below the minimum wage.
She said that minimum wage increases do not harm employment and argued that low pay limits opportunities.
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Senator Cosgrove said that low pay is a major reason apprentices drop out:
