A civil service trade union has criticised the decision to give redundancy notices to Britain's King Charles’s staff during the period of mourning as “nothing short of heartless”.

Warning over potentoial loss of jobs following ruling

The unadjusted Live Register total stood at 186,100 for August 2022

The new figures show that Ireland's labour market continues to remain tight amid a growing cost-of-living crisis and soaring inflation

Merchants Quay Ireland has warned that homelessness is on the rise and a new type of client — specifically women leaving an abusive household, and vulnerable young people — are part of the emerging trend.

Rate had increased in March but has fallen again

Covid-19 took its toll on the class of 2020, with graduates more likely to be looking for a job than their counterparts pre-pandemic

Ireland’s unemployment rate has now risen to 7.5%, while the average rate in most other OECD countries is much lower.

A total of 193,332 people were out of work in December

Under questioning from Sinn Féin’s Imelda Munster, Mr McKeon said that neither Social Protection nor Revenue had classed couriers as being self-employed using a single test case in the late 1990s

Opposition TDs raise concerns as Tánaiste says Government plans to make changes to EWSS, PUP, and other supports 

Budget 2022 was framed against a backdrop of a strongly recovering economy and rapidly improving public finances as Ireland emerges from the grips of the Covid-19 pandemic, though the virus is still very much with us.

The Irish Refugee Council added that these individuals are the “hidden unemployed” and schemes such as this could help them integrate

The Government's reopening plan includes relaxation of the two-metre social distancing rule in workplaces and booster jabs for vulnerable groups

Economists have said it will take some time for unemployment to fall back to 4.8% where it stood on the eve of the pandemic

Our special Spotlight report revealed, many people in their 20s and early 30s are fearful for their futures

A major study of young people living in Duhallow and the Lee Valley shows poor broadband and transport links are among the barriers in finding employment

New strategy aims to get 75,000 long-term unemployed people back to work

Most appeals relate to the PUP rate of payment or whether the loss of employment was due to Covid-19 restrictions

Irish Local Development Network has offered to provide a 'comprehensive' public employment service post-Covid-19, which it says 'offers greater value for money' than the much-criticised JobPath

The mid-year update from the OECD on the world economic outlook, published last week, paints quite an optimistic picture on the prospects for global growth.World GDP is projected to rise by 5.8% in 2021 and 4.4% in 2022, having contracted by 3.5% ...

With shops, hotels, and restaurants reopening their doors and our social calendars beginning to fill up again, our bank accounts will take some time to adjust to 'normal' life

Scheme has been a frequent target for criticism from opposition TDs due to its rates of job progression tending to be less than 10%

In its latest forecast, the EU projects unemployment will average 10.7% this year, falling to 8.1% in 2022, despite strong recovery

Young people are the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, with jobs in hospitality, arts and leisure among the worst affected.

The overall unemployment rate for April was 22.4%, down from 23.8% in March

Before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, some 630,000 people were living below the poverty line — about one-eighth of the entire country

Overall there were 813,000 fewer workers on payrolls than in March 2020.

Getting people back into jobs will be a 'huge driver' of tax revenue increases, says finance minister

Irish income support schemes almost certain to be extended as Department of Finance predicts prolonged pandemic scarring

At the Faro branch of Refood, 172 families queue for supplies every week, an increase of 160% since the pandemic started

Dean said that while he feels sorry for the people in Ireland who are going about their lives under the current public health guidelines, his decision to travel was a "no-brainer" for him.

CSO figures show the standard rate of unemployment, excluding PUP recipients, was unchanged last month at 5.8%, in 2020 this was 5% or near full employment. 

Ireland was the lowest ranked country on the environmental dimension of the Index

Threat of long-term unemployment looms larger because of the tough restrictions on the construction industry

Ireland and the rest of the EU risk a higher number of business failures and long-term scarring of unemployment than is necessary because of the relatively slow roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines, Goodbody chief economist Dermot O'Leary has warned.

Prices already increased by 6% in the last year, with analysts expecting this trend to continue in the coming year. 

The Department says anyone made unemployed from today, and who applies by 5pm on December 31, will be able to receive a PUP payment by January 5

Last Monday we marked the winter solstice which, in the Northern hemisphere, was the shortest, darkest, day of the year. The sun, if it appeared at all, was at its most southerly position, directly overhead at the faraway Tropic of Capricorn.

People returning to work this week will be able to reapply for the PUP payment in January if restrictions are put in place again, a government spokeswoman has clarified.

Concerns are growing about the potential of further closures of retail giants in Ireland and the UK, threatening thousands of jobs.

Germany’s unemployment rate dipped in November despite a partial shutdown introduced to halt a sharp rise in coronavirus infections, official data showed.

Number of people on the Pandemic Unemployment Payment rose by 2,000 to 352,078 last week

The dispute has been ongoing for 224 days.