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Sutton Golf Club must pay €10,000 to former barman after replacing him with students

WRC heard Sean Soden had worked as a casual bartender at the club since 2008 but was laid off ‘due to Covid’

Low incomes and poverty, Budget 2024 predictions, and Dublin Port’s plan for a new bridge over the Liffey

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

HR software firm Rippling to create 100 jobs at new EU HQ in Dublin

Company currently employs 35 in the State

Take a tip from the experts: a nakedly self-serving approach to building connections puts people off

Good networking is about reciprocity. If you just want others to scratch your back, forget it

‘Don’t box yourself into one industry, because your knowledge can be adapted’

Wild Geese: Niamh Keohan, founder of We Love Transformational Travel, is based in Dubai

Women are driving the labour market

A post-pandemic boom in female employment shows the ‘she-cession’ has been reversed

The unnoticed microstresses that can lead workers to snap

The increasingly fast-paced world of work has stretched workers’ capacity to cope

IT workers still best paid but tech downturn triggers fall in wages

Latest CSO data shows average weekly earnings for all workers in the Republic rose by 4.3 per cent year-on-year to €909.77

Strong appetite among Irish employees for four-day working week

Employer-sponsored childcare and subsidies also strike chord with workers, says Lockton

Love plus work is an emotional minefield

A partner’s support has a significant bearing on professional life

Office gender divide on hiding knowledge from colleagues

Men hide their knowledge from colleagues more frequently than women but how both operate matches expectations about gender stereotypes

How to embrace the climate-conscious worker

Employees who feel they are considered unreasonable because of climate concerns ‘are going to feel excluded and leave the company’

Nine ‘legacy’ Hodges Figgis staff to get 12% pay rise after Labour Court recommendation

The nine staff behind the pay claim worked for the Dublin bookshop before it was taken over in 1999

Shortage of trainees in Germany reaches critical level, commerical body warns

A survey of companies shows that just under half have vacant training places and roughly one-third had filled none

Medical debt kickstarted a new life after a working holiday gone wrong

Wild Geese: Brian Buffini, San Diego

CRH boss third best paid CEO on FTSE 100, Central Bank’s data breach, and low interest rates on State savings

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Pension auto-enrolment: Most people still in dark

Government has substantial work to do to improve understanding of mandatory workplace pension scheme

Ireland third most attractive country in EU for overseas jobseekers

More than 10% of searches for jobs in Ireland in June originated from outside the country

Energy prices to fall, stick or twist on tracker mortgage, and noisy co-workers

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Pilita Clark: The hell of other people in the office

The scourge of loud or smelly co-workers is back – and there’s hot-desking issues too

Up to 16,000 security guards to get first pay rise in four years

Implementation of industry-wide agreement had been held up by High Court action

‘Chile is an amazing country for astronomy. It’s one of the top places in the world in terms of the clarity of the night sky’

Wild Geese: Evelyn Johnston, Santiago, Chile

Dunnes Stores to open in Point Village, Irish-Saudi business links, and fantasy rail strategy

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Why bosses must take time to learn from failure

Getting caught up in a blame game is counterproductive as it distracts from understanding what went wrong and puts too much focus on personalities

Younger people’s expectations of work are vastly different – and employers need to get on board

Many younger workers are focused on work-life balance and diverse workplaces and are not as attracted to big tech

London law firm plans Dublin expansion, Grant Thornton report on Ryan Tubridy’s RTÉ pay, and the right to disconnect from work tech

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

New rules on the ‘right to disconnect’ from work swept in around the world, but have they worked?

There’s a lesson for politicians in the fate of laws introduced around the world establishing a ‘right to disconnect’

International law firm Simmons & Simmons signs lease for new Dublin office, with potential to double workforce

Law firm has signed lease for fourth floor of One Molesworth Street, which will be able to accommodate 120 employees over time

A third of people are working from home at least three days a week

Working from home online is most common among people in densely populated areas with better broadband

The perils of impenetrable gibberish at work

A Hungarian doctor and Donald Trump show why it’s important to get your message across clearly at work

Staffing at care units for highly vulnerable children running at less than half required level

Just under 105 of the 221 posts in the country’s three centres are filled

An Irishwoman working for a Japanese company in France: ‘I wouldn’t be anywhere else’

Wild Geese: Dr Clíodhna Lyons has worked for Nissan since 2006 and is now based in Paris

The inconvenient truth about personal productivity

You’ll never clear the decks. Just do the best you can with the time allotted to you

‘The last thing anyone needs is an email from their boss at midnight. It shows no consideration’

Companies need to formalise arrangements to ensure the blurred line between work and personal lives during Covid is not institutionalised

WRC to summon Swissport over temporary worker’s claim for €1,000 signing bonus

Recruitment company supporting claimant seeking payment

Amazon tracks and targets US staff over three days in office rule

Email to some employees sparks concerns about privacy

An Irishwoman in Côte d’Ivoire: ‘I love being able to stop at the coconut vendor on the way home’

Wild Geese Dr Jane Feehan, Côte d’Ivoire

Leaner times will test employers’ commitment to worker wellbeing

The more employers step into the area of supporting mental health, the more they open themselves up to claims that they are falling short

Republic’s unemployment rate revised up to 4.1%

Youth unemployment edges up to 10.7% but analysts say labour market remains ‘incredibly tight’

Bullying at work: ‘There can be so much shame associated with being bullied’

As an adult is responsible for themselves, this may make it very difficult for them to get out of the clutches of a bullys

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