{"id":171313,"date":"2025-12-02T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171313\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:44:09","slug":"league-of-ireland-minimum-wage-contracts-to-be-increased-from-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171313\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Ireland minimum wage contracts to be increased from 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stephen McGuinness: \u201cWe\u2019ve secured meaningful improvements in pay, welfare, and working conditions for players across both men\u2019s and women\u2019s leagues.&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9f3214c4-c025-414a-9546-4a3172c290cb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stephen McGuinness: \u201cWe\u2019ve secured meaningful improvements in pay, welfare, and working conditions for players across both men\u2019s and women\u2019s leagues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The minimum wage for League of Ireland players will increase from the 2026 season onwards, one element of a range of improvements announced by players union PFA Ireland today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Full-time professional players aged 20 and over will now be entitled to a minimum wage of \u20ac450 per week, up from \u20ac430, with those aged between 19 and 16 also in line for increases of \u20ac20 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen McGuinness: \u201cWe\u2019ve secured meaningful improvements in pay, welfare, and working conditions for players across both men\u2019s and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1113,61,60,4876,112],"class_list":["post-171313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sean-oconnor","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}