Aldi has announced it will create 500 jobs and open seven new stores in 2019.

Implementing a living wage could play a significant role in offsetting the rise of in-work poverty across the European Union, according to a new report from Eurofound on the Concept and practice of a living wage in the EU.

Lidl has become the first supermarket here to announce a minimum hourly rate of €11.90.

Restaurant owners are warning businesses should not be penalised because the cost of housing has gone up.

Around one in seven people in poverty have jobs but low rates of pay and loose contracts mean they can’t make a living wage.

Aldi Ireland have announced the introduction of a new minimum rate of pay of €11.70, matching the Living Wage rate recommended by The Living Wage Technical Group.

Gaps between women and men, and young and older workers on the minimum wage have substantially narrowed, but there are still inexplicably more non-nationals than Irish workers in receipt of the lowest wages, according to the latest research.

The Living Wage has been increased by 20c to €11.70 an hour.

The CSO has released its latest survey showing that just over 10% of Irish workers are now making minimum wage or below.

A group set up to examine the Living Wage says it should stay at €11.50 per hour this year.

The Dáil has begun considering calls to pay every public worker a so-called 'living wage' of €11.50 per hour.

The Government has “set a course to fail spectacularly” on its commitments on job security, the gender pay gap, and in-work poverty, the country’s largest public sector union claims.

The Labour Party has announced its plans to increase the minimum wage of €9.15 to a “living wage” of €11.30 per hour, over the next five years.

A large corporate has said it is become the first major firm in Ireland to guarantee the living wage to all its staff.

Lidl Ireland has become the first large employer to announce a “living wage” of €11.50 per hour for all its employees here. And it will pay a rate of £8.20 per hour for employees in Northern Ireland following a campaign by Unite, the union of retail workers.

A group representing smaller businesses says they can't afford to pay staff a Living Wage of €11.50 per hour.

The Small Firms Association has said most of its members cannot afford to pay the so-called Living Wage.

Employment Minister Ged Nash said he wants state agencies, departments, and local authorities to pay a “living wage” as he announced a forum on special pay rates with employers in the autumn.

IBEC has claimed that employers in Ireland would struggle if they were forced to pay a living wage.

The Nevin Economic Research Institute has warned of the potential for low pay in certain sectors of the economy to become “embedded” and a permanent feature of some individuals within the labour market.

More than three-quarters of the public support setting a ‘living wage’ as the country’s minimum wage level, according to an opinion poll.

Calls for a "Living Wage" for Irish workers are being discussed at the Biennial Delegate Conference of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

A 5c increase in the 'living wage" is being recommended by an expert group to reflect Ireland's growing economy.

A conference by the Think-Tank for Action on Social Change will hear calls later today for the Government to introduce “a living wage”.

The creation of a living wage — above the minimum wage — is set to come on the national agenda, the head of the Low Pay Commission told Oireachtas members.

Manchester United have vowed to introduce the living wage to all their full-time staff by July – a year earlier than many of their Premier League counterparts.

Archaeologists in the Unite union have voted unanimously not to accept jobs paying below €11.45 per hour.