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Employment services must be protected from privatisation – Kilkenny's Kathleen Funchion TD

Sinn Féin TD for Carlow Kilkenny Kathleen Funchion has called for TDs to support the party’s motion to protect community employment services from privatisation. The motion will be debated in the Dáil today, Tuesday, and would protect the ...

30 Nov 2021 at 09:00

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Local Employment Services tender must not put profit over people - Kilkenny TD

Sinn Féin TD Kathleen Funchion for Carlow Kilkenny has called on the government to remove the profit-focused approach set out in a tender for the expansion of Local Employment Services (LES). The request for tender is open to ...

08 Jun 2021 at 19:00

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Employment levels in Ireland reach record high - Kilkenny Live

Employment figures in Ireland have reached a record high, and now stand at the highest since records began. The number of persons aged 15-89 years in employment increased by 68,600 or 2.7% to 2,574,500 persons in the 12 ...

23 Feb 2023 at 15:33

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Kilkenny TD welcomes significant increase in employment figures

The South East region saw employment grow by 9.3 per cent last year and by 34% over the past 10 years, according to figures released by the CSO, according to Fine Gael TD, John Paul Phelan. A record 2.48 million people ...

26 Feb 2022 at 09:57

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Transport Dept becomes first in Irish Govt to receive cycle friendly employer status

The Department of Transport has received recognition as an EU-certified gold standard Cycle Friendly Employer (CFE). It's the first Department in the Irish government to receive an award from the CFE project - an ...

13 Apr 2022 at 17:20

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Kilkenny TD John Paul Phelan - New measures to protect the future of Community Employment Schemes in Kilkenny

A range of new Government measures designed to protect the future of Community Employment (CE) Schemes will widen the range of people in Kilkenny can take part. That’s according to Fine Gael TD, John Paul Phelan....

12 Apr 2017 at 16:59

Business

Ifac warns Kilkenny employers of a hike in payroll costs

Ifac, Ireland’s farming, food and agribusiness specialist professional services firm is warning employers of additional payroll costs in 2022. Mary McDonagh, Head of HR and Payroll with ifac says, “Plans to ...

07 Jan 2022 at 11:21

Business

Kilkenny TD says expensive childcare continues to stop women entering workforce

Kilkenny TD and Sinn Féin Children’s spokesperson Kathleen Funchion TD, has said today’s findings by Chartered Accountants Ireland that childcare remains the number one barrier to women re-entering the ...

07 Jan 2024 at 11:00

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Comment: Forget games rooms and pizza days, most employees just want basic wellbeing in 2024 - KilkennyLive

TS Eliot may have reckoned that April is the cruelest month, but it’s unlikely he spent much time in Ireland in mid-January. The mercury is dropping well into the negative numbers, the evenings are ...

21 Jan 2024 at 14:00

National News

Employment has increased by 9.8% - CSO figures reveal

Employment has increased by 9.8%, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office. The number of hours worked per week is up 4.3 million hours in the year to September 2021, to ...

25 Nov 2021 at 16:21

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Improving employment opportunities for people with disability in Kilkenny

Ibec, the group that represents Irish business, in collaboration with Employers for Change, the Employer Disability Information Service providers, have today published a new policy paper that ...

19 Jul 2021 at 15:00

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'Shocking but sadly not surprising' - Damning study on employment rates for people with disabilities

A new study examining nationwide employment rates among those with disabilities shows that Ireland had the fourth lowest rate in 2018. The findings come from the Economic and Social Research ...

22 Sept 2021 at 11:40

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