The tax-payer is set to splurge just over €350,000 on new bespoke, tailored uniforms for staff at Leinster House and Áras an Uachtaráin.

Irish Rail is introducing new staff onboard their trains to tackle antisocial behaviour.

Many of the staff at CUH — dubbed the ‘Wilton Hilton’ — have been there since it first opened, writes Denise O’Donoghue.

Staff at Oxford Global Resources, Penrose Quay in Cork city have taken part in the ultimate spin-off for charity.

The number of staff at State agency Teagasc earning more than €100,000 increased by four to 26 people last year.

Delays in the recruitment of new nurses will cause more overcrowding in emergency departments this winter, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has warned.

Dozens of examples of bad practice flagged by probe of expenses paid to community healthcare staff.

Australia's prime minister has banned his ministers from having sex with staff as his deputy battled for political survival over revelations that he is expecting a baby with a former press secretary.

As head of a company that has true pan-European credentials, his views should be heeded, and especially by the aerospace industry in the North, writes Joe Gill.

Latest: The INTO says pay inequality is the real reason for teacher shortages, not career breaks.

Michael Moynihan says this is the time of year when GAA clubs all over Ireland are looking around for chairmen and coaches, treasurers and selectors, secretaries and PROs.

Half of workers have a "civilised" three-course dinner in a restaurant followed by drinks in a bar for their office Christmas party, a new study reveals.

Irish Water has been accused of scaremongering after it revealed plans to complete its takeover of all local authority staff working in water services four years earlier than intended.

Hotel cleaning staff are being told to clean up to two thirds more bedrooms per shift as their employers try to make up for the cost incurred as a result of the increase in the minimum wage, the Siptu biennial conference in Cork has been told.

Cork county councillors have insisted that their staff are kept constantly updated on any transfers to City Hall they may face as a result of the city’s proposed boundary extension.

Mental health services need an extra 2,000 staff to function properly.

Fifty Nama staff members have been placed on “gardening leave” for more than three months, with two on paid leave for six months, the Oireachtas Finance Committee was told.

THE hotel sector has very favourable Vat arrangements and has for generations been a low-pay industry. That suggests the sector expects to advance while having comparatively low tax bills as well as low staff costs.

The country’s main youth detention centre is down seven staff on any given week due to absenteeism, with new figures showing 1,668 rostered days — roughly seven staff a week —lost there last year.

A Dublin tech firm says it will need to hire more staff as it expands its international H.Q. in the city.

There's some good news for staff and customers of KBC Bank.

A HSE audit of children’s charity Barnardos found the CEO and senior management salaries were paid in excess of health sector pay rates and that unclear information was provided to the board and to the media in relation to the CEO’s salary and his donations, writes Catherine Shanahan.

Nurses claim patients are being admitted to 30 new beds in Virginia Community Nursing Unit in Cavan - despite the fact that no staff have been hired to care for them.

The INMO claims the health service is under excessive demand coupled with inadequate bed capacity.

Assaults on prison staff have cost the State almost €30m since 2008. However, the ratio of assaults by prisoners on Irish Prison Service (IPS) members is reportedly relatively low.

A set of guidelines for HSE staff on how to deal with parents who have lost a baby is to be launched this morning.

Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has admitted that he paid workers below the minimum wage, also telling UK MPs that he has discovered "issues" with working practices at the retailer as part of an internal review.

Suir Pharma has confirmed 130 staff have been made redundant at its Co Tipperary plant.

The Financial Services Union will ballot its members in AIB on a proposed 2.2% pay rise in the coming weeks.

Standard Chartered would risk a staff exodus if it cut bonuses, chairman John Peace said yesterday, responding to investor anger over high pay when the bank’s shares have tumbled and there will be no final dividend for 2015.

Ulster Bank staff will not be affected by its parent company’s decision to axe 550 jobs as it scales back its advisory services, a spokesperson said.

Tesco has told the Labour Court that it cannot afford to pay its Irish staff their 2015 bonus as it continues to struggle with its sales levels here.

SIPTU have said they will not accept proposals from Tesco to cut the wages of long serving staff at the company.

Close to 1,000 of Tesco’s Irish employees are to be hit with significant pay cuts if the retailer succeeds in moving some of its longest-serving staff to different contracts.

Businesses’ own employees are a bigger threat to the security of their data than external attackers, new research shows.

The State body charged with fostering indigenous enterprise can boast a record number of people at work in the companies it supports after a bumper 2015.

Online professional network, LinkedIn, is to recruit 100 workers and take its workforce in Ireland to 1,000.

The deputy governor of the Central Bank has warned that public sector pay restrictions and the lure of better pay at the European Central Bank are damaging its ability to retain staff.