The latest set of Irish labour market data published last week by the CSO saw the unemployment rate revised up from 5.1% to 5.9% for the most recent month, July.

Putting migration on the agenda for UN development goals will benefit families as well as helping to transform perceptions of the issue, write Peter Sutherland and William Lacy Swing.

Foreign workers are more likely to take a claim for unfair dismissal against their employer than their Irish counterparts, according to new research on the rulings of the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT).

A study of employment appeal rulings shows disparity in outcomes between Irish and foreign nationals, writes Seán McCárthaigh