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Newcastle could be getting its own version of the London Eye called the Whey Aye and Geordies can't contain themselves.more

The average person will have to save 260,000 over their lifetime to enjoy a basic income in retirement, climbing to 445,000 if they are unable to get on the property ladder, according to a report by a former government pensions minister.more

The beneficiaries of wage increases are mainly specialists who can not be replaced by emigrants from non-EU countries.more

Workers at Luton Airport, including baggage handlers, firefighters and security staff, are to stage strikes over the May Bank Holiday weekend in disputes over pay and zero hours contracts. The Unite union warned of disruption to flights unless a series of rows with the airport and contractors are resolved.more

An Garda Síochána are looking to recruit new members of the force. The Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has announced the launch of this year's recruitment campaign.more

A woman who works as a Director of Happiness in a company where the average age is 23 has revealed how the 'traditional' workplace is dying out in favour of incentives such as unlimited holiday and daily yoga classes. more

Access TO seasonal migrant workers from the EU is a necessity for the future of the horticulture sector, Scottish rural economy secretary Fergus Ewing has stressed during a visit to Angus Growers.more

BT is to axe around 13,000 jobs over three years as the telecoms giant aims to cut costs. The company said the job losses would mainly affect back office and middle management roles.more

There's nothing like finding out that you're earning way less than everyone else to spur you on. You might decide to quit your low-balling job. You might ask for a pay rise. Or, of course, you might just gnash your teeth, wishing you'd listened to your parents and gone into law. more

There are now 3,100,000 children of working parents who are growing up in poverty, a new study has found.more

94 percent married people in Poland say their husband or wife know how much they earn.more

More than 70 per cent of those who are training and will soon qualify as nurses are considering leaving the State, according to a survey by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).more

Poland is facing a shortage of workers after an exodus of people to Britain and Germany. The country is having to recruit workers from countries like Ukraine and Bangladesh to fill vacancies in trades such as building, welding and lorry driving.more

A year's rent takes up every penny earned by full-time workers until the first week of May, analysis by BBC News reveals. A middle income earner in England would work 86 days to rent an average two-bedroom home, five more than in 2011.more

A shortage of nurses has forced the HSE in the midlands to resort to billboarding public hospitals with advertisements in the desperate search for staff. The drastic move came after several visits to recruitment fairs in both Dublin and London failed to secure enough nurses to fill the vacant slots at the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar.more

GDPR is a new data protection law which comes into force in May.more

The health sector was the sector with the highest number of days lost due to work-related injury, equating to 92,000 days per year between 2008 and 2014.more

The proportion of working-age mothers with a job has risen by nearly 50% in the past four decades, a study says. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found the increase was behind a wider rise in the number of women in employment in the UK.more

ecord numbers of nurses and midwives from EU27 countries quit Britain last year, fuelling fears that a Brexit brain drain will deepen the NHS's already chronic staffing crisis. A total of 3,962 such staff from the European Economic Area (EEA) left the Nursing and Midwifery Council register between 2017 and 2018. more

Jeremy Corbyn will today reiterate his pledge to introduce a new national holiday to mark the patron saints of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. He will tell a union conference on Monday - St George's Day - that after eight years of "damaging Tory austerity", Britain's workers deserve a day off.more

The number of zero hour contracts in the UK labour market rose by around 100,000 last year according to the Office for National Statistics. The agency reported that in its latest survey of firms there were 1.8 million contracts that did not guarantee a minimum numbers of hours in the year to November 2017. more

A Bristol-based company has introduced a nine-day working fortnight for all its staff. Tech consultancy firm Edo, which is based on Bond Street, lets employees take every other Friday off.more

British TV BBC broadcast at the beginning of the week the "Panorama" investigation program, dedicated to the use of "forced workers from North Korea" in Russia, China and Poland.more

The British organization Unseen has published a report summarizing the first year of operation of the Modern Slavery Helpline, a hotline on which suspicions of human trafficking can be reported. Poles are the second most frequently reported nationality, after Romanians.more

ONLY British passport holders are permitted to apply for new Border Force jobs being created in Northern Ireland in preparation for Brexit. The British government is advertising hundreds of new Border Force roles ahead of the UK leaving the European Union.more