A survey has found that 96% of logistics and shipping companies have not adapted their processes to use the €38m Eircode system, nearly a year since its introduction.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Ireland is attracting huge amounts of inward foreign investment, but the country can not take for granted that the flows that helped drive the economy out of crisis will be repeated, a leading economist has warned.

Ged Nash, the business and employment minister, served for many years as a trade-union official and it is perhaps no coincidence that he was on hand recently to launch The Safety Representative Resource Book, which deals in some detail with aspects of health and safety. It is to some extent modelled on a recent publication issued by the Trade Union Congress in Britain.

Less than a year after it was on the verge of closing its Waterford manufacturing base and shedding 1,100 employees, contact lens giant Bausch & Lomb has announced the creation of 125 jobs in the city.

The gap between the emerging recovery reported in recent months and the reality for many is hampering consumer confidence, new data finds.

Trade unions are hoping that confirmation of a new investment at the Bausch & Lomb plant in Waterford may save some of the 200 planned redundancies there.

Bausch & Lomb are to invest in upgrading its production systems in its Waterford facility.

Members of the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) at Bausch & Lomb in Waterford have voted to accept a cost saving plan put forward by management.

Union representatives for more than 900 workers facing an uncertain future at a pharmaceutical plant in Waterford are hoping to press for compromises with management when they begin "high-stakes" talks today.

Technology giant Google has appointed a new head of its Glass wearable technology device division to make the product more fashionable ahead of an expected mainstream launch.

Dublin-based firm Actavis, one of the world’s largest generic-drugs makers by market value, has agreed to buy Forest Laboratories for about $25bn (€18bn).

A company that has withdrawn a controversial planning application for a waste depot on the edge of Waterford City wants the public to email it with alternative site suggestions.

Residents, businesses, and a third-level college are among the objectors to plans for a waste facility on the edge of Waterford City.

WORKERS at one of the south-east’s biggest employers have been left devastated at the announcement of 575 job losses with the closure of a telecommunications call centre.

THE US-based chief of one of the world’s leading eyecare product manufacturers has expressed confidence the Irish Government will “do the right thing” and maintain the current level of corporation tax.

AFTER their thrilling derby game on Friday night at The Mardyke Arena, UCC Demons and National Event Hire Neptune go their separate ways this weekend with the NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague champions heading to Jordanstown and Neptune make their first trip to Moycullen.

OVER 70,000 of the 413,000 people now registered as unemployed are experiencing delays with their social welfare applications, it emerged last night.

The number of people signing on the dole will shatter the 500,000 barrier by the end of the year, the Taoiseach warned today.

Global eye care giant Bausch & Lomb is to shed 120 jobs at its south-east plant as it looks to cut costs and shift part of its Irish operation to the US.

Bausch & Lomb is seeking another 120 job cuts at its Waterford plant, it has been announced.

Up to 200 jobs are being axed at leading business consultancy and auditing firm KPMG, it emerged today.

Staff at US eye care firm Bausch & Lomb will be briefed today on a possible 200 job cuts at its Waterford city plant.

WATERFORD is losing out on almost €1.4 million in salaries monthly because of a planning delay in relation to a proposed construction project in the city.

Excitement is nearing fever pitch in Waterford ahead of Sunday’s crunch clash with the Cats and many workplaces will be eerily quiet on Monday with most fans taking the day off — win or lose, writes Conor Kane.

A CHARITY working for the children of a Belarus orphanage is seeking a qualified Russian chef for part-time work in Waterford during the summer.

Imtech NV, a Dutch technical services provider, is to buy the Irish firm Suir Engineering Ltd.

BUSINESS leaders in Waterford have called for the establishment of a high-powered group to drive forward the city’s development over the next seven years.

Wall Street ended the first week of the third quarter with a respectable gain today, shaking off early losses as investors found signs of strength in the government’s June employment report.

ONE of the largest multinational companies in Ireland is being sold to a private equity firm in a deal valued at $4.5 billion (€3.3bn).

Staff at a factory in Waterford are preparing to strike later today, in a dispute over the suspension of one employee.

A TOTAL of 1,500 workers face an uncertain future at a contact lens manufacturing plant after management yesterday put them on protective notice.

WATERFORD and the south-east may be losing jobs at present but the IDA says it remains active in promoting the region.

THERE were heavy job losses in Munster yesterday with more than 290 jobs axed in Cork and Waterford. DDC Ireland announced operations will stop at its Cork facility by end of the year with the loss of 71 jobs.

A TRUST which is helping countless cancer sufferers across Waterford travel to Dublin or Cork for their radiotherapy treatment in greater comfort is to expand its fundraising activities into Kilkenny next week.

STAFF at one of the country’s most charitable multi- nationals have given the gift of sight and improved health to yet another group of orphaned children from Chernobyl.

US stocks advanced today in light trading as Wall Street recovered from the previous session’s selloff and awaited tomorrow’s expected interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve.

A HIGHLY successful business leader responsible for Waterford’s largest private employer has added his voice to growing calls for the granting of designation to Waterford Institute of Technology to allow it to become the University of the South East.

A CANCER Trust which has just received a bus to ferry passengers for radiotherapy treatment is now looking for a pool of volunteer drivers for the coach.

BIG-HEARTED Waterford employees have put their hands in their pockets and dug deep to pledge their wages towards a very worthy cause.

US stocks ended a quiet session today with a moderate gain on strong earnings news and a decline in the trade deficit.

EYE-HEALTH company Bausch & Lomb has become the first corporate donor to the Waterford Institute of Technology Foundation.

WATERFORD’S mayor and his deputy could be US-bound for St Patrick’s Day after all, despite earlier claims from city hall that nobody was venturing abroad this year.