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‘The gig economy model that is often believed to be the new utopia of opportunity is not so enlightening.’ File photograph: Getty
Now is the time for Ireland to consider a fair-work agenda
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  • March 12, 2021, 05:15

At the end of January 2021 almost 500,000 workers here were on the pandemic unemployment payment. The roll out of vaccination programmes has shifted m(...)

Within two months of first official cases of coronavirus being reported here unemployment shot to a record 28.2 per cent, one of the biggest jumps seen by any country. Photograph: Frank Miller
Will Covid make the jobs market more unfair?

The Irish labour market tends to amplify economic shocks. That’s been observed through several recent recessions. The reason is that 70 per cent of t(...)

The President was speaking to the International Labour Organisation. File photograph: Maxwells
Pandemic has shown how ‘undervalued’ frontline workers were – Higgins

Covid-19 has illustrated how, for the last four decades, frontline workers and those providing essential services have been “undervalued”, President M(...)

As Ireland emerges from the Covid-19 lockdown, many people will potentially lose their jobs or see the nature of their jobs change radically. File photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty Images
We must prepare for the changes in employment that will follow Covid-19

In the months and years ahead, as Ireland emerges from the Covid-19 lockdown, many people will potentially lose their jobs or see the nature of their (...)

Kailash Satyarthi: “Eradication of trafficking, forced [child] labour, bonded labour is supposed to be accomplished by 2025 and unfortunately it seems that the world is failing again its children.” Photograph: Money Sharma
Rights activist calls for child protection from online threats

Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi has met Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to seek support for a UN convention combating international child exploitati(...)

“It can be difficult for organisations to spot talent and future leaders.” Photograph: iStock
Changing to meet new needs

Organisations of all types are finding it difficult to keep up with the pace of change in the world around them. In a world where the world’s biggest (...)

Skillnet Ireland chief executive Paul Healy: “We will all have to be more agile, flexible and able to move between jobs.”
Longer working lives set to become blend of high touch and high tech

Increased longevity, pressure on the pensions system, and the changing nature of employment are combining to create a profoundly different career land(...)

Norah Casey pictured this week receiving an award. Several facts used to promote her Planet Woman initiative are wrong or have been largely discredited.
Norah Casey won’t help business women by peddling factoids from another planet

This week, former Dragon’s Den panellist and magazine publisher Norah Casey launched her annual Planet Woman Academy initiative. It is essentially a m(...)

Ged Nash said the Bill will apply to people such as actors doing voice-over work, session musicians and freelance journalists. Photograph: : Dave Meehan
Seanad passes Bill providing collective pay bargaining for self-employed

A Labour Private Member’s Bill allowing for self-employed people to collectively pay bargain with employers was passed by the Seanad. Party spokesma(...)

Syrian refugees: fewer than 0.1 per cent of those seeking asylum in Turkey have been given work permits. Photograph: Kilicbulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
Work permits prove hard to come by for Syrians in Turkey

Fewer than 0.1 per cent of Syrians in Turkey stand to gain the right to work under much-vaunted Turkish labour laws, undermining EU claims the legisla(...)

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