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Aer Lingus is looking to meet with the trustee of the pension fund following the rejection of a plan to plug a €750m hole in the company’s pension scheme by the pensions regulator.

The board of Aer Lingus has backed recommendations made by the Labour Court last week, aimed at resolving its pension deficit woes and avoiding industrial action.

Just 560 former Dell workers found work again despite more than €13m of EU and state funds being spent on them.

Less than 400 of 9,000 construction workers eligible for extra training under a €35m EU fund have taken up the courses.

Revenues increased almost threefold to €22.89 million at Dublin Aerospace last year as the aircraft overhaul firm recorded a profit in only its second full year of operation.

The head of the Department of Education has rejected her minister’s claim that maladministration led to loss of more than €30m in dedicated job support.

There is concern over how certain aspects of new proposals which will attempt to plug a €722 million deficit in the Aer Lingus pension fund will work.

ISME wants the Government to effectively exclude small firms from the redundancy rebate reduction scheme, as the resulting increase in costs will have a “devastating” effect on indigenous firms.

PROPOSALS to make employers pay the first weeks of an employee’s sick leave have only been abandoned for this year but will be introduced before long.

MORE than 1,200 free third-level college places on offer to unemployed people are still unfilled three months after most courses began as part of a Government jobs drive.

TALKS are to begin next week on ways to address the rapidly escalating deficit in the pension scheme for the Dublin Airport Authority and Aer Lingus workers, now reportedly in the red by up to €600 million.

UP to 1,250 Aviva workers facing redundancy will lose out on retraining grants from the EU while money for TalkTalk employees hangs in the balance.

THE Government will have to hand back nearly half of the almost €40 million it has been offered by the EU to retrain thousands of redundant workers.

Rental profits and dividends are being considered for additional tax in the budget, it has been

AN aircraft maintenance firm has announced 150 jobs at Dublin Airport.

Dublin Aerospace has announced plans to create 150 jobs over the next two years with recruitment already underway for the first 45.

THE Government is planning to seek EU funding to help retrain workers who lost jobs in the financial services sectors.

Thousands of construction workers may miss out on European money for retraining because of mistakes by the previous Government, it has emerged.

HUNDREDS of workers due to lose their jobs at the Aviva insurance company might be ineligible for European funding to help retrain them for work in other industries.

MERRION Stockbrokers has upped its 12-month share price target for Aer Lingus; noting that solving its €500 million pension deficit problem could be the key to creating stock value.

The Government intends to apply for a European grant to assist the 575 workers axed from TalkTalk.

Dublin: Former SR Technics workers who want to set up their own business could miss out on grant aid worth thousands of euro and crucial business support services unless they act quickly, according to the County and City Enterprise Boards.

FUNDING for thousands of the 15,900 places on courses being provided for unemployed people was already allocated by the last government.

IDA IRELAND has said it remains on course to achieve its previously stated five-year target of over 100,000 new jobs by 2014, following a better-than-expected showing in 2010.

Multi-national companies created almost 11,000 jobs last year – more than double the figure in 2009.

MUCH of the €25 million being paid out by the EU to help get laid-off Irish workers back into employment may have to be returned, MEPs have warned.

EU aid has been approved for 850 former workers at SR Technics who were made redundant in 2009.

TÁNAISTE Mary Coughlan has been accused of failing former SR Technics workers with delays while she was in charge of the Department of Enterprise meaning that much of a €7.5 million retraining fund supplied by the EU may have to be returned unspent.

A career advancement programme has revealed it has 200 work placement opportunities available nationwide for experienced and professional workers.

WHY is Fine Gael being criticised for removing the Dáil pairing arrangement?

THE European Commission has approved a €7.4 million grant for the retraining of 850 Dublin-based former aircraft staff.

The European Commission has approved funding of €7.4m to help retrain 850 workers made redundant by aircraft maintenance firm SR Technics.

THE Government has applied to the European Commission for €40 million in funding for a training programme for 8,800 people who have lost their jobs in the construction industry.

DUBLIN Airport has been dealt another blow, with American Airlines deciding to pull its operations this winter.

THERE are currently three vacancies in the Dáil brought about by resignations. Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher stood down in 2009 after his election to the European Parliament. Earlier this year George Lee of Fine Gael resigned his South Dublin seat in a tizzy and Martin Cullen stepped down from his Waterford seat due to health reasons.

RYANAIR has chosen Germany as the location for its controversial hangar, which was the subject of a political storm recently.

Budget airline Ryanair accused the Government today of losing out on 200 jobs after it announced plans for a new maintenance hangar and training centre in Germany.

Ryanair has revealed that 200 jobs which they wanted to create at Hangar Six at Dublin airport, are instead going to Germany.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer was one of the success stories of the Celtic Tiger economy, especially with the development of the wonder drug Viagra.

SR Technics has signed a contract with Thomas Cook Group to maintain 43 aircraft until 2015.

The 300 jobs that Ryanair claimed it would create at Hangar Six at Dublin Airport are now going to either Spain or Germany.

ALL of the 500 jobs Ryanair offered to create at Dublin Airport have been lost to other European airports, the airline has confirmed.

Angelo Quabba has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of SR Technics, the company announced today.