INSPECTORS from the National Employment Rights Authority are set to focus on the security industry in their latest clampdown on abuse of workers’ rights.

A workers’ rights helpline received 93,000 calls received from the public in 2007, it emerged today.

TAXI drivers have expressed disappointment at the sudden resignation of the country’s first taxi regulator in the middle of a series of often controversial reforms of the industry.

The transition to new taxi fares will be difficult because many meters have not been changed, cab drivers said today.

Taxi Regulator Ger Deering today insisted proposed reforms of the industry would go ahead later this month despite hundreds of drivers blockading his office this afternoon.

The Taxi Regulator Ger Deering has said that he will not address the convoy of protesting taxi drivers who arrived at his office this lunchtime.