The national minimum wage is set to increase by 30 cent on February 1, 2020.

More than 22,000 new businesses opened in Ireland in 2017.

Social media content moderators need to be afforded supports similar to those provided to frontline workers due to the stresses associated with the job, according to a privacy expert.

Facebook moderators, who claim their mental and physical health has suffered because of the graphic content they have had to view as part of their work, are to take personal injury claims against the social giant through the Irish courts.

It’s not often trades unions and employers are equally worried about an issue threatening workers’ rights. But recently, the UK’s Trades Union Congress and the main body that represents British businesses, the CBI, have both voiced concerns about the budding practice of implanting employees with microchips, writes Shainaz Firfiray.

According to a recent survey carried out by Eurobarometer, Irish employees are the most satisfied in Europe with their work/life balance.

The latest WHO report on world health makes for depressing reading. It reveals that physical activity has been engineered out of life, with desk-based jobs replacing physical labour, lifts replacing stairs, and cars replacing active travel.

A Deliveroo rider in Dublin has expressed his growing dissatisfaction with the working terms and conditions of the food delivery company.

Yesterday’s CSO figures showing a record number of people in work must be celebrated. There are this morning, 2,255,000 people at work, up 3.4%, or 74,100, year on year.

Dolly Parton’s song ‘Nine To Five’ was a big hit in the 1980s, and became something of an anthem for office workers in the US.

The single market is a collective name for a series of arrangements to facilitate commerce across EU member states; in essence, as if those member countries were one and the same.

A quarter of employees earning the minimum wage or under have worked for their employer for four years or more.

Irish firms are grappling with staff shortages and are recruiting from abroad and retraining employees to avoid large pay hikes, according to a major survey.

By Eamon Quinn

The number of unemployed people in Ireland has fallen to its lowest level in a decade.

Women employed by RTÉ are more likely to occupy the lowest paid roles in the organisation than men and are vastly outnumbered in the highest paid categories.

Irish Rail workers have threatened strike action over a proposal to move station staff to new jobs on trains.

The days when an employer could ‘shoulder surf’ an employee to see what they had posted on social media are rapidly coming to an end, writes Eddie Keane

One in five Irish employees would be prepared to pay a bribe or act unethically if they knew it would lead to a pay rise — while almost half of Irish employees believe corruption is widespread, a survey has found.

More than 200 Pfizer workers in Cork have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in a dispute over employee pensions, writes Pádraig Hoare.

Senior staff at Petroceltic International are expected to voice concerns about the alleged writing-down of their employment rights, in opposing a survival scheme for the company due to be put before the High Court for approval next week.

A new survey shows one in three Irish employees do not feel appreciated in their workplace.

A new survey has said that most employees think health in the workplace is not a priority for their employers.

They are ’mortgage refugees’, ‘semigrants’ or simply a new breed of commuter, writes Dan Buckley.