Ireland has one of the highest rates of low pay in the OECD and of underemployment in the European Union. Short-hour, low-paid, insecure and precarious work is on the rise, putting undue pressure on workers and their families, who are unable to plan childcare and their finances from week to week. In advance of the 1918 general election , Sinn Fein produced a hand bill declaring : 'That where Irish resources are being developed or where industries exist, Sinn Feiners shall make it their business to secure that workers are paid a Living Wage.'
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