No return to pre-recession employment by 2015, says report

The state training agency FÁS is today predicting that the number of people employed in five years' time will still be 80,000 behind the pre-recession peak reached in 2008.

A new study published by FÁS and the ESRI forecasts that 50% of workers will be in white collar employment by 2015, and the number of females in employment will exceed pre-recession levels.