Donal O’Keeffe spoke to a few people for whom Christmas is just another, albeit very special, working day

Jack and Jill Awareness Week runs to October 14.

New research from the ESRI has found mothers with higher childcare costs when their child was aged three tended to then work fewer hours when their child was five.

With a shortage of key skills threatening to derail plans to ramp up Ireland’s housing output, initiatives to tackle long-term unemployment are taking centre stage, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Desk-bound workers need to get up and move to stay healthy and ache-free, writes Abi Jackson.

The Government is planning a campaign to get older people “sitting” on the live register back to work and to also encourage senior workers to put off retirement.

A man who was convicted in his absence of involvement in a 2003 bomb attack against the HSBC bank in Istanbul and of membership of al Qaida has been arrested, according to Turkish media reports.

Three quarters of people nearing retirement want to keep working.

Walk in the shoes of Ursula Clarke, a clinical nurse specialist in respiratory medicine at Mayo University Hospital. 

There is strong support among the public for allowing undocumented migrants to regularise their situation here, a new poll has found.

Millions of workers in developed countries such as Ireland risk being trapped in poverty, despite the economic recovery becoming widespread, according to the OECD.

Ireland is in breach of an EU directive on working hours for junior doctors, a legal opinion published by the European Court of Justice has said.