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Mon 01 Jan 2009Call to scrap Sunday €20 minimum hourly wage
THE ENFORCEMENT of a minimum wage of almost €20 an hour for work on Sundays is likely to force the closure of hundreds of hotels, cafés, restaurants and pubs in the new year, Fine Gael has warned.
Dr Leo Varadkar, the party’s spokesman on enterprise, trade and employment, said this would result in the loss of “thousands of jobs”.
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