Postgraduate researchers to protest being paid '22% below minimum wage'

"We write papers, teach students, supervise labs, invigilate exams and mark assignments, all for salaries below the national minimum wage, a measure designed to keep people out of poverty.” File picture

Postgraduate researchers are to protest outside Dáil Eireann next week to demand action on employment rights and a living wage for those working in the higher education system.

Organised by the Postgraduate Workers' Organisation of Ireland (PWO), the protest is aiming to highlight what the group sees as “no sincere intent to meaningfully change the hardships forced upon postgraduate researchers.”