Community, voluntary employees to fall by over 16,000, new report finds

Community and voluntary sector employees will have fallen by more than 16,000 by 2015, even though the numbers who need their services have multiplied due to the economic crisis.

That was one of the findings of a report on the sectors due to be published by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions today.

The report, by researcher Brian Harvey, reveals that voluntary and community services were valued at €6.5bn, received €1.89bn in state funding and employed 53,100 in 2008.