Tagged with: employment
'Tossed to the wind'?
27/07/2020
-The report 'Tossed to the wind'? The Pandemic Unemployment Payment and the reshaping of the Welfare State and this blog summary was written by Drs Fiona Dukelow, Joe Whelan and Tom Boland of University College Cork. ‘We weren't just tossed to the wind at all’ ‘A godsend’ These are two responses that sum up key …
Now is the time to talk about job quality
Gail Irvine 23/10/2018
This week the Carnegie UK Trust published new research which analyses how workplace trends are impacting on the quality of life of workers in …
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 …
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 …
Effects of the minimum wage on the jobs market
Tom McDonnell 06/03/2013
Tom McDonnell: TASC made a short submission last week to the Labour Court review of the JLC wage agreement mechanisms. The submission is available …
The Costs of Working in Ireland
Nat O'Connor 13/06/2012
Nat O'Connor: The ESRI withdrew a working paper today. The Irish Times reported that this was "unprecedented". However, another ESRI report (on waste …
Employment is down
Tom McDonnell 12/12/2011
Tom McDonnell: It just keeps getting worse. Long-term unemployment now accounts for 56.3 per cent of total unemployment while the seasonally adjusted …
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Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …