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NI Minister for Enterprise Arlene Foster (right) with Linden Foods chairman Trevor Lockhart and managing director Gerry McGuire. Photo: PA Linden Foods announces 179 new jobs

Jobs being created at Co Tyrone meat processing plant

Glanbia group managing director John Moloney left, and chairman of Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Liam Herlihy. Photo: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times New Glanbia dairy plant to create 1,600 jobs

Food ingredients company says investment will add €400 million per annum to the local economy

More than 1,000 new construction jobs will be created over the next two years as part of a major upgrade of the N11 and N7 road networks. Photo: Eric Luke/The Irish Times Roads upgrade to create 1,000 construction jobs

N7 will be carried over the Belgard Road via a new flyover at Newlands Cross

Fiona O’Connor, head of executive recruitment at Deloitte, at the National Women’s Council of Ireland conference “Women on Boards: the Next Steps” in Dublin yesterday.Photograph: Dave Meehan Quotas needed to boost equality in Irish boardrooms, conference told

Ireland falls behind global average in number of women in senior management positions

Siptu ballots. Rejection of Croke Park II deal may have prevented damaging split

With any revised deal, the prospect remains of rows reigniting within the trade union movement

Taoiseach Enda Kenny with Martin Murphy, managing director of HP Ireland and chairman of the steering group on JobBridge, at the launch of the Government’s national internship scheme in 2011. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Department investigates over 200 complaints into conduct of JobBridge firms

Thirteen companies banned from employing new interns

Ex-Fas director Greg Craig proposes plan to state to target long-term unemployed Former Fás man in outsource proposal

Greg Craig in plan to target long-term unemployed

People wait outside an unemployment office in Madrid, Spain today. Spanish government figures show that the number of people registered as unemployed edged down by a little under 5,000 in March, the first reduction for the month in five years. Photograph: Andres Kudacki/AP Slight rise in Spanish employment likely to be seasonal

Youth joblessness running at 55.7 per cent

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook. The emergence of a new wave of high-profile young entrepreneurs globally, such as Zuckerberg, has enhanced the willingness of young people to “give it a go” early in their career, often straight out of college. Photograph: The New York Times Big rise in number of young directors at Irish firms

Entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg prove inspirational as some one in 10 company chiefs aged 18-35

Croke Park II: deal is not attractive but alternative would be far worse

Plan to cut €1 billion from public service pay and pensions cannot be wished away

Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors general secretary John Redmond and his Garda Representatuive Association counterpart PJ Stone in a recent a protest against the new Croke Park agreement outside Leinster House. Photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill /THE IRISH TIMES Croke Park II: unfair proposals target those who have no more to give

No worker has the right to vote for a pay cut to be imposed upon someone else

Aer Lingus CEO Christoph Mueller has been appointed the chairman of An Post. Aer Lingus CEO appointed chair of An Post

Pat Rabbitte says An Post is facing significant challenges in the internet era

Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday it would continue its aggressive monetary policy to target high unemployment. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst US unemployment claims edge higher

Figures follow Federal Reserve’s pledge to continue with economic stimulus in bid to tackle joblessness

Job seekers wait to speak to representatives of employers at a job fair. Photo: Getty Images Euro zone employment falls

Some 19 million people currently unemployed in the bloc

Minister for jobs, enterprise and innoviation Richard Bruton speaking at Government Buildings today. From left, Sean O Driscoll (Glen Dimplex Group), Dave Sannon (AbbVie) Louise Phelan (Paypal), Heather Reynolds (Eishtec ) and Dave Geragty,(representing John Herlihy of Google) Photograph: Cyril Byrne / THE IRISH TIMES Bruton praises ’patriotism’ of private sector figures

Executives chosen to deliver Government jobs plan

Better times: David Long, president and chief executive of Liberty Mutual Group, and Pat O’Brien, CEO, Liberty Insurance, in 2011. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Liberty Mutual Insurance cuts 425 jobs

Company cites additional staff demand for voluntary redundancy

A queue of jobhunters for the 100 jobs being offered by Eishtec in Waterford at jobs fair in the city yesterday. Waterford firm Eishtec is seeking to fill 100 more positions

Company founded by former TalkTalk managers will grow to 750 staff

Positive signs as US job creation figures beat expectations

There are signs of renewed vigour in the US economy as a stronger than expected 236,000 jobs were created in February.

Time to face bubble-era public sector pay anomalies

The focus last week in this column on the inherent unfairness of the new agreement on public sector pay and conditions, which…

Construction work arising from the wreckage caused by Superstorm Sandy was seen as a driver of jobs growth in the sector. Photograph: Michael Appleton/The New York Times. US unemployment at 4-year low

US employers stepped up hiring in February, pushing the unemployment rate to a four year-low and suggesting the economy has enough…

Hope and disillusion

The gloom created by the loss of 300,000 jobs following the economic crash of 2008 is unlikely to dissipate any time soon

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