For 2025, the national minimum wage related to a normal working week is:

Age 18 years and over………………€221.78

Age 17 years…………………………€215.00

Age 16 years…………………………€212.16

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The full statutory bonus and weekly allowance payable every six months is as follows:

End of June……………………………………………..€135.10 (Bonus)

From the 15th till the 23rd December…………€135.10 (Bonus)

End of March…………………………….€121.16 (Weekly Allowance)

End of September………………………€121.16 (Weekly Allowance)

Yes, the cost of living increase is obligatory. A full-time employee is entitled to the full increase, while a part-time employee is entitled to part of the cost of living increase in proportion to the hours worked. Workers with collective agreements might have wage increases that are in addition to or inclusive of COLA. If they are inclusive of COLA, then this would mean that employees would only get the stipulated increase and not the COLA, provided that such an increase is at least equal to the amount of COLA.

Wages should be paid at regular intervals not exceeding 4 weeks in arrears. Different periods of pay can be agreed in a collective agreement. If the employer fails to pay the employee wages due, a complaint can be lodged by the employee, at the Department of Industrial and Employment Relations.

The wage payable to the employee can consist of a commission so long as the minimum weekly wage is guaranteed and such minimum wage is paid at regular intervals not exceeding four weeks in arrears.

Most sectors have their minimum overtime rates regulated by the respective Wage Regulation Order that regulates their activity of work. Where the overtime rates for the particular category of employees is not regulated by a Wage Regulation Order, the applicable overtime rate is that of time and a half per hour worked in excess of a 40 hour week, averaged over a 4 week period or over a shift cycle at the discretion of the employer.