Stroke survivor who sought reduced working hours settles discrimination case for £100k
Site manager asked for reduced working hours to 30 hours a week, following two strokes
Work
Rescue plan at specialist electrical systems business saves 480 jobs
Judge praises pragmatic attitude of Revenue Commissioners in accepting the deferment of significant sums due to protect jobs
Worker forced to retire at 65 awarded €18,000 by Labour Court
Deepak Fasteners turned down request from 45-year veteran to stay on for one year until he reached State pension age
AI’s inbuilt biases threaten to undermine women in the workplace
For many companies, the short-term promise of productivity seems to be overcoming the hard reality of long-term bias and exclusion
How Gen Z is taking a different approach to money - and what others can learn from it
Gen Z and younger Millennials no longer consider life’s traditional milestones as appropriate for their lives
Mechanic wins WRC order for €5,400 in unpaid wages against motor garage employer
WRC rejects claim from employer that it only owed worker an apprentice rate of €4.75 an hour for three months of employment
Let’s stop glorifying motherhood and glorify parenthood instead
But we’ll need more than just a cultural shift if we’re to stop birth rates falling further
The Work We Need by Hilary Cottam: An ambitious call to rethink work
Latest book from the author of Radical Help reimagines our relationship with work
Ireland fined €1.54m for delay in writing EU work-life balance directive into law
Ictu says Ireland has tended to be bad at transposing directives into Irish law but officials say we are currently ranked second best
Making fatherhood work: ‘The feeling you get from caring for your child, I’d swap it for a few zeros’
Changing attitudes to fatherhood are shaping the workplace and men’s careers
Senior X executive concedes 48-hour window for Twitter staff to decide future was ‘not ideal’
Labour Court hearing X appeal of €550,131 award by Workplace Relations Commission to former senior manager in social media group’s Dublin office
Ice cream parlour worker pestered for dates by colleague gets €5,000 for sexual harassment
Trinity student who worked for Spilt Milk complained after boss repeated comments from her aggressor to another staff member
Twitter challenges €550,000 WRC award to former Dublin-based manager it says took ‘enhanced opportunity’ to depart job
Labour Court hears former Twitter executive is over €16,000 out of pocket each month since failure to sign Musk’s ‘hard core’ email saw his ousted
Bank of Ireland to cut 260 jobs as first-half profit falls amid tariff-related impairment charge
Lower interest rates trim bank’s net interest income though not by as much as expected and lender maintains medium-term targets
Housing Agency raised salary for incoming CEO by over €23,000
Government approved bumping salary from lowest to highest point on Assistant Secretary pay scale on appointment of NTMA’s Martin Whelan
Stop thinking of taking time ‘off’ this summer. It’s better to take time ‘for’
Unthinkable: Three tips to help you try – all of which might feel unnatural, uncomfortable or unintuitive at first
‘Apartments here are very reasonable for what you get, but eating out is expensive’: an Irishman on life in Antwerp
Wild Geese: Peter Shaffrey has changed careers and moved cities but is now settled in Belgium
So many jobs are a laughable waste of time. The greater part of any job is learning to look busy
We’ve inherited a strange cultural hangover from better times: the idea that the thing you do to survive should also double as your identity and source of pride
Nothing really terrible can happen to you while having a little sit-down. With a biscuit
Work, especially if you love what you do, will be stressful. It will challenge your abilities daily. At least let me do it in a chair with a good back
Majority of calls to housing charity concerned about tenancy being ended
Most callers who contacted Threshold were working professionals, with 46% stating wages as main source of income
I’ve seen men watch porn in my workplaces. I reported it and was called a prude
Such actions may amount to sexual harassment and can seriously damage your company, career and workplace relations
‘A solution to a problem that didn’t exist’: AIB staff angered by cut to hybrid working
‘Be under no illusions of where we stand and how we are “valued” by the organisation,’ one staff member said
‘Burned out’ saleswoman wins €15,800 for constructive dismissal
WRC rules that international lingerie brand repudiated her contract of employment by failing to address grievances
AIB calls eligible staff into office three days a week
Lender will have tightest hybrid working rules among Irish retail banks
Start of mandatory pension scheme fast approaching, but one in four companies yet to prepare for it
All businesses are required to have pension systems in place for eligible staff by the start of 2026
Who answers the phone and says nothing? People under 25
Younger workers who don’t say hello when they answer a call need to know it’s a problem
How can I find what my likely State pension will be?
Department of Social Protection will only entertain queries six months ahead of drawdown, but here’s how you can work it out for yourself
Imagine lying on your death bed and thinking - I’ve had a good run. I went to a lot of meetings
Most meetings are, at best, a waste of the working day, and at worst, an egregious, soul-sucking waste of life itself
‘I was asked if I was a terrorist every day’: The Mayo woman helping expats make a soft landing in the UK
Eimear Maguire and her ex-husband run a successful family law practice in Manchester and Cheshire - ‘We are the poster people for divorce’
Garda raid on home of award-winning curry restaurant owner finds bank card in worker’s name
Chef says he did not come to work after alleged threat by owner to have him deported back to Pakistan
I was the first pregnant senior manager in the organisation. My employers were shocked
That was 2004. Now, structured parental supports from employers improve retention, loyalty and the management pipeline
More than 270 NTMA staff given performance-related bonuses last year
The highest individual payment was €30,000 under the agency’s performance-related pay scheme
Ex-head of UN migrant office in Dublin ‘reassigned because of her behaviour in Ireland’
Bureau tells WRC it is invoking diplomatic immunity in response to constructive dismissal claim
How many civil servants does it take to run a small country like Ireland?
We are pretty good at coming up with policies but average at implementing them compared to peers
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