Category: Labour market
Living wage
Robert Sweeney 17/07/2018
LAST WEEK THE Living Wage Technical Group published an update of the living wage in Ireland. The living wage calculates the wage needed to live a minimum acceptable standard of living. The technical group, comprising various civil society organisations and academics, bases its findings on VPSJ research gauging ‘what members of the public believe …
The Crucial Role of Enterprise Policy
Sean Ó Riain 19/06/2018
This past week has brought new controversies about Ireland’s status as a ‘tax haven’, following new research from researchers at the University …
Can anyone give me another word for precarious?
Keith Murdiff 20/03/2018
The history of English Language Teaching (ELT) in Ireland can be traced back to one of its most famous teachers- James Joyce. Despite the fact that …
Raising employment
Robert Sweeney 16/03/2018
The issue of pay and employment props up occasionally in public discourse but rarely receives the attention it merits. With international women’s …
Technology: friend or foe to working people?
Vic Duggan 16/01/2018
First, they came for the factory workers, but I did not speak out – Because I was not a factory worker. Later, they came for the bank tellers, but …
Fat Cat Wednesday
Michael Taft 10/01/2018
Today, just seven working days into the New Year, the average remuneration for CEO’s in the top 21 Irish companies (which represent 95 percent of …
The Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017
Sinead Pembroke 12/12/2017
Just last week, the government announced that it was to introduce new legislation to deal with amongst other things, zero-hour contracts. This …
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Nat O'Connor
Nat O’Connor is a member of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences (IRiSS) and a …
Michelle Maher
Dr Michelle Maher completed her PhD on the Irish pension system in 2016 at Maynooth …
Sinead Pembroke
Dr Sinéad Pembroke is a researcher at TASC on the Social Implications of Precarious …