State must stop treating young people as substandard with sub minimum wage

Productivity is not tied to age, and this proves once again that the sub-minimum wage is discriminatory, write Saoirse Exton and Jamie Mac Giolla Bháin

A rally outside Leinster House last month calling for all TDs to support passage of National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022 to end wage discrimination against young workers. 

In 2019, the planet watched as young people took to the streets. We had never seen such power coming directly from the hands of the youth, and that power influenced other young people to join in and call for climate action. 

Young people were seen as citizens, people with valid opinions and valid electoral influence, even if they were too young to vote.