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
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
Soaring house costs that push people further away from their places of work due to unaffordable property prices are causing a form of "involuntary social engineering", according to a brokers' body.more
A group of cleaners stormed the Tate Modern gallery to demonstrate against their investment firm employer - a sponsor of a recently opened Picasso exhibition. more
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the West Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.more
Carpetright is set to close down 92 stores across the UK, with 300 jobs set to be lost in the process. The carpet specialists have been struggling, with profits falling, and have blamed 'poorly-located' stores for some of their problems.more
On average, Poles are tying to find a new job for 2.5 months, according to the published results of the latest survey of the Randstad Research Institute.more
The 19-member eurozone now boasts the lowest jobless rate in about 10 years, the EU's statistics office has announced. It also reported a slight increase in consumer prices after months of declining inflation.more
All UK companies with more than 250 employees had to report details of the gap between the median hourly rate paid to male and female staff by midnight on Wednesday. Here are some of those with the biggest gaps, and some of the later filers.more
The municipalities of Maasdriel, Zuidplas, Zaltbommel and Tiel want to reduce the number of Polish and Romanian migrant workers living in residential neighborhoods, in order to keep the areas livable for local residents, RTL Nieuws reports.more
After Easter, teachers will receive a raise in early April. Last week, education minister Anna Zalewska signed a regulation on the minimum rates of their basic remuneration.more
