Cavan-based director of policy and advocacy of the National Youth Council of Ireland is calling for sub-minimum rates of pay to be abolished.
Sub-minimum wage rates allow employers to pay age groups less than the full national minimum wage.
Workers under 18 can be paid 70%, those aged 18 can receive 80%, and those aged 19 can be paid 90% of the national minimum wage, while carrying out the same work as regular, full-time employees.
Kathryn Walsh is the director of policy and advocacy of the National Youth Council of Ireland.
She says it is important to be conscious of youth poverty this International Workers' Day:
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