Childcare industry says level of support in budget like a ‘kick in the stomach’Budget 2025: Increases in funding for early learning and childcare ‘utterly insufficient’, say providersWed Oct 02 2024 - 20:19
Review of regulatory changes to cushion SMEs against sudden cost shocks, says BurkeMinister said he is reassessing pending changes to paid sick leave and sub-minimum wage rulesWed Oct 02 2024 - 18:56
What are these smartphone ‘pouches’ being introduced in schools? And how do they work?Budget 2025: Government allocated €9 million in the Budget 2025 to helping keep students off phones during schoolWed Oct 02 2024 - 15:32
Child benefit bonuses, free school meals and extra childcare funding approvedBudget 2025: Government wants Ireland ‘to be one of the best countries in the world in which to be a child’, says MinisterTue Oct 01 2024 - 21:19
Confirmation of start date for pensions auto-enrolment welcomed by representatives for workers and business The Government has decided that auto-enrolment will come into effect on September 30th, 2025Mon Sept 30 2024 - 17:36
Irish troops in Lebanon will remain in place to continue monitoring and humanitarian workIreland currently has up to 375 troops in South Lebanon where it has been part of the United Nations Interim Force Lebanon (Unifil) since 1978Mon Sept 30 2024 - 12:01
Statutory redundancy cap ‘out of sync’ with wage levels and limit should rise to €1,015 a week, says union Connect delegates support call for €600 weekly limit to be increased to €1,015 in line with average wage growth since the current cap was introduced in 2004Sun Sept 29 2024 - 13:09
Lebanese in Ireland voice fears for family ‘trapped’ amid Isaeli airstrikesAbout 200 people attend Saturday’s protest in Dublin as concerns grow over further violence in Middle EastSat Sept 28 2024 - 18:20
Apprenticeship system reputation threatened by proposed changes, conference hearsConnect union event, attended by apprentice members and construction sector employers, heard concerns about a new ‘consortia’ approachFri Sept 27 2024 - 17:21
National children’s hospital site picketed by Unite members in travel-allowances dispute Union says action is to highlight wider ongoing dispute rather than to significantly disrupt work on NCH siteFri Sept 27 2024 - 13:26
Health unions to ballot staff on industrial action over HSE staffing levelsrish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and Fórsa among a wider group of unions critical of the limits on recruitment and overall staffing levelsThu Sept 26 2024 - 17:51
Apprenticeships: ‘It’s like the country got nearly a bit too snobby or elitist when it came to education’Career route offers an alternative to those either not interested in or unsuited to university, and those who want to work and earn at the same timeFri Sept 20 2024 - 05:00
Siptu official defied instruction and exposed union to potential defamation action, WRC hearsGer Malone, a full-time organiser since 2002, alleges she was penalised after making protected disclosuresThu Sept 19 2024 - 19:35
‘I can only get 9¼ hours of creche time for my daughter’: parents call for State-run childcare National Women’s Council and 25 other organisations want pilot programme establishedThu Sept 19 2024 - 08:59
Siptu structures for representation of own staff worse than Ryanair, WRC hearsWorkers are obliged to engage with an internal committee that management can influence or ignore, hearing toldWed Sept 18 2024 - 18:08
Irish principals condemn ‘vacuous’ OECD review which missed ‘severe deprivation’ in some schoolsDepartment of Education’s own information repeated in report, leaders of schools in disadvantaged areas sayWed Sept 18 2024 - 06:00
Psychiatric nurses’ industrial action to start in Mayo, Galway and RoscommonUnion involved in dispute with HSE over staffing levels and failure to hire available psychiatric nursing graduatesTue Sept 17 2024 - 08:35
FSU calls for widening of bank levy in Budget 2025Union wants successful new entrants to the sector like Revolut to be coveredFri Sept 13 2024 - 15:35
FAI staff and management agree on pay talks after union campaignUnion unhappy about system of pay increases on case-by-case basis with staff earning what they did 15 years agoFri Sept 13 2024 - 14:29
Family who moved seven times in six years find security with cost rental homeMary Osakwe moved seven times in six years before finding her current scheme and has now changed her focus to building communityThu Sept 12 2024 - 19:59
Consumer class actions legislation requires work to be effective, conference toldQuestion of who will pay for litigation remains unclear, Irish business conference hearsThu Sept 12 2024 - 18:02
Workers enduring worsening levels of racial abuse in workplace, Ictu conference toldSupport from trade unions inconsistent, researchers say, as Ictu publishes ‘inclusive workplace’ toolkitTue Sept 10 2024 - 19:33
Health service unions mull protests and ballots on industrial action over HSE hiring curbsMore people employed than ever before with substantial growth in recent years, says Health Service ExecutiveMon Sept 09 2024 - 06:00
Taxi drivers worried they may owe VAT on commissions paid to UberUnlike other taxi-booking apps, Uber does not collect tax from drivers and pay it to Revenue, leaving drivers wondering if they will be pursued by taxmanSun Sept 08 2024 - 19:00
Failure to set out intentions clearly may have hurt Sinn Féin, says Ó BroinDublin Mid-West TD says he is pleased with reaction to Sinn Féin’s housing planSun Sept 08 2024 - 15:08
Plan for FAI staff protest at England game suspended ahead of talksSiptu members working for the Football Association of Ireland are seeking negotiations on a pay agreementFri Sept 06 2024 - 15:22
Intel’s research and development facility at Shannon to close next yearBase for those currently working in Co Clare operation to be moved to Leixlip or abroad but no additional redundancies expectedFri Sept 06 2024 - 11:30
Plumbers, fitters, welders go on strike at several high-profile construction sitesPickets are placed at six locations in dispute with contractors over travel time paymentsFri Sept 06 2024 - 09:11
Inheritance tax threshold rises have no ‘clear policy rationale’, watchdog saysRecent increases to thresholds appear ‘arbitrary’ and not to follow ‘clear and consistent principles’, Parliamentary Budget Office saysFri Sept 06 2024 - 06:00
Psychiatric nurses to take industrial action after latest talks failIndustrial action due to begin on September 17thThu Sept 05 2024 - 19:10
Siptu staffer who ‘filled time drinking coffee’ after being left with no work awarded €15,000 by WRCWRC also ordered a much delayed investigation of worker’s complaints be carried out Siptu restore her to a role of equal value to the one she previously heldWed Sept 04 2024 - 06:00
Increased pay rates for work permit holders could lead to inequality and racial tensions, minister toldIncreases to minimum rates for permit-holding meat workers went ahead as planned despite misgivings from employers within the sectorMon Sept 02 2024 - 06:00
‘If you don’t swipe in, you won’t be promoted.’ Remote working is still a battlegroundRemote working has revolutionised our working lives, but is still being thrashed out in many workplacesSun Sept 01 2024 - 07:05
Cardinal workers may be offered eight weeks’ redundancy payUnion and management set to begin negotiations on terms next weekSat Aug 31 2024 - 06:00
Health service research group handed €2.5m to help shape clinical guidelinesHigh-quality information ‘more important than ever’, says Stephen DonnellyFri Aug 30 2024 - 16:59
Reporter Liz Cookman wins inaugural Dave McKechnie Memorial Journalism Prize€3,000 prize, established by The Irish Times in honour of late deputy foreign editor, won by Ukraine-based reporterFri Aug 30 2024 - 13:30
Staff at Irish branch of Amnesty International face lay-offs as organisation hit by financial crisis Lay-offs are temporary, says executive director Stephen Bowen, as organisation hit by financial crisis and unable to meet wage bill for SeptemberFri Aug 30 2024 - 12:20
Louth Independent TD Peter Fitzpatrick will not contest next general electionTD left Fine Gael in 2018 over abortion legislationFri Aug 30 2024 - 08:58
Cardinal Health took $100m dividend from Irish unit before cutting up to 315 jobsWorkers told Tullamore plant will close by March 2026Fri Aug 30 2024 - 06:47
Childcare reform: What do the new subsidies mean for parents and service providers?Overall, some €1.1bn of public money will go into the sector this year but not everyone is happyThu Aug 29 2024 - 18:24
Increased childcare subsidies worth average of €33 extra a week due to come into effect MondayCosts down by around 50 per cent for average parent through various programmes now introduced, Minister saysThu Aug 29 2024 - 16:04
More than 300 jobs to be lost as Cardinal Health facility in Tullamore set to closeCo Offaly plant to close on a phased basis between now and 2026Thu Aug 29 2024 - 14:52
GP sets up organisation to help doctors from India work in IrelandDr George Leslie Thomas Prekattil says many doctors are deterred by registration delays and exam schedulingMon Aug 26 2024 - 00:01
Siptu members at FAI to launch public campaign over pay dispute ahead of Ireland-England gameAssociation refusing to negotiate with staff on pay and conditions, says unionMon Aug 26 2024 - 00:01
Garda pensions: Why is the force finding it hard to hire a deputy chief - and how the tax issue worksJob comes with salary of €200,000 a year, but added wages could push pension pot to point where it is hit with tax liabilitySat Aug 24 2024 - 10:00
Government departments criticised over failure to engage with Labour Court in WRC staff pay rowDepartment of Enterprise and Employment and Department of Public Expenditure and Reform urged to re-engage in dispute over adjudicating officersSat Aug 24 2024 - 06:00
Call for more support for rural GPs to meet needs of ageing clients amid doctor shortage New GPs tend to work in larger towns and cities, Irish College for GPs saysFri Aug 23 2024 - 06:00
Which counties have the highest and lowest numbers of GPs? World Health Organisation deems 100 GPs for 100,000 people adequate but this level is only met in Galway and Waterford, the Irish College of GPs findsFri Aug 23 2024 - 06:00
Intel prepares for surge in applications for lucrative exit packages at Irish operationDeadline for redundancy applications is todayFri Aug 23 2024 - 06:00
Childcare crisis should be addressed through publicly run system, says women’s councilNational Women’s Council calls on Government to establish a pilot scheme in the budget with a view to taking direct control of provision over the longer termThu Aug 22 2024 - 06:00
