YOUNGER, more talented people should be hired to the civil service instead of paying higher salaries to those who “haven’t done a very good job”, says Fine Gael’s spokesman on Communications, Leo Varadkar.

Almost 400 jobs are expected to be created in Cork and Carlow as a result of significant investments due to be announced later today.

Government policy is standing in the way of people having time to be parents, it was claimed today.

BOSSES escape censure for bullying in the workplace because employee complaints are not investigated by an independent source, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) said yesterday.

The Minister of State for Labour Affairs Frank Fahey has given his full support to the Government's smoking ban policy.