Axa, France’s largest insurer, plans to increase profitability through 2020 by seeking €2.1bn of cost cuts and growing digital investments to tap rising demand for policies protecting savings and health. The firm may also seek acquisitions to boost growth.

Irish hardware design company PCH may cut some Cork-based roles as part of efforts to shed 1,500 jobs globally.

Teachers who qualified after 2011 are demanding equal pay to their older colleagues.

As world dairy markets continue to recover, the industry in Ireland has gone in the other direction, cutting peak supply milk prices.

Talks are said to be underway between Intel Ireland and its staff about job cuts at the company.

The countdown to politicians forcing cuts in costly mortgage rates quickened yesterday as Fianna Fáil pledged to reintroduce a bill in the Dáil that it says will swiftly pave the way for lenders to slash home loan rates.

Standard Chartered would risk a staff exodus if it cut bonuses, chairman John Peace said yesterday, responding to investor anger over high pay when the bank’s shares have tumbled and there will be no final dividend for 2015.

BP said it could cut capital spending further after reporting an 80% drop in profits in the first quarter of the year, when oil prices touched a near 13-year low.

The Irish Dental Association has said cuts to the dental treatment services scheme have resulted in a rise in the number of extractions.

Cuba is cutting the prices of some basic foods by 20% following complaints that many staples including rice and cooking oil are too expensive for the communist state's poorly-paid workers.

Despite the fact that a 100 years has elapsed since 1916, I wonder did we ever really lose the yolk around our necks? True the Church as a force has been dramatically reduced.

Boeing plans to cut about 4,000 jobs from its commercial airplanes division by mid-year as part of a broader effort to reduce costs amid fierce competition from Airbus Group.

Ulster Bank staff will not be affected by its parent company’s decision to axe 550 jobs as it scales back its advisory services, a spokesperson said.

Tesco has told the Labour Court that it cannot afford to pay its Irish staff their 2015 bonus as it continues to struggle with its sales levels here.

Close to 1,000 of Tesco’s Irish employees are to be hit with significant pay cuts if the retailer succeeds in moving some of its longest-serving staff to different contracts.

More than 2,000 pensioners chanting “We can’t live on €300” have marched through central Athens to protest against plans by Greece’s left-wing government to overhaul the pension system.

Fears have emerged for some 4,000 Irish workers after global IT company Hewlett-Packard announced a second wave of job cuts that will see up to 35,000 employees lose their jobs globally.

The head of a Cork educational authority has insisted that both funding for teachers’ salaries and the body’s capital expenditure were not cut as a result of legal settlements it paid out over a number of years.

The BBC is to cut more than 1,000 jobs, including many managerial roles, because of a £150 million shortfall in its licence fee income.

A number of senior academics have come together in support of the Rape Crisis Network Ireland as the organisation struggles to cope with massive cuts in Government funding.

The Government has agreed to begin returning pension cuts made to retired public servants during the financial crisis.

"Mum is going to kill us."

The Expressway service will go out of business if cuts to routes are not made, Bus Éireann chief executive Martin Nolan told the Oireachtas Transport Committee today.

Industrial action could happen “sooner rather than later” following Bus Éireann’s review of its services, a union representing bus drivers has warned.

The Government’s apparent disregard for the hardship caused to older people by austerity measures is "disturbing", Age Action said yesterday.

Iarnród Éireann has said it will press ahead with implementing €4.7m in cuts to its pay bill unless talks with unions next week yield an agreement.

Up to 150 people are expected to lose their jobs at a Dublin food distribution depot after food wholesale giant Musgrave confirmed it is not renewing its contract with the firm.

The link between social disadvantage, unemployment, poverty, welfare dependence and poor educational achievement is expressed in the starkest terms in last night’s social housing organisation Respond’s report.

The HSE has warned St Vincent’s University Hospital that it will slash its funding by 20% from Friday if it doesn’t comply with public pay policy.

More than 30 primary schools will lose a teacher next autumn due to ongoing changes to how smaller schools are staffed.

The HSE has warned it will cut its funding to five charities by 20% if they don’t try and comply with public health sector pay policy by Feb 21.

Housing Minister Jan O'Sullivan has today defended changes to housing grants to the elderly and disabled - saying it will ensure the money goes to those who most need it.

A group representing older people has hit out at the government over further cuts to grants.