A tiny school with just two pupils is currently hunting for a new headteacher. Applications are being encouraged for the job on Foula, a small island 20 miles west of Shetland
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One in five people are concerned their jobs could come into competition with automated or artificial intelligence technologies, according to a survey commissioned by tech provider Ricoh Ireland.more
Postmen around Ireland often have tough jobs trying to deliver letters to people living in the back of beyonds. However it always helps when the full address and name of the person is listed.more
A Polish road worker has reportedly been crushed to death by a roller on the Bog Road, Forkhill in Co Armagh. The man was thought to have been laying a new road surface when the incident happened on Wednesday afternoon.more
Londoners are to get the chance to become a real life Luther or Jane Tennison as Scotland Yard launches a radical scheme to recruit detectives from the general public.more
A gang has been jailed for a total of 32 years for running a large scale slavery operation which saw Polish nationals trafficked into the UK to be used as modern day slaves.more
David Davis announced that if the Conservative Party wins the June parliamentary elections, the government will guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the United Kingdom.
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The mother of zoo-keeper Rosa King, who died after a tiger entered an enclosure at a Cambridgeshire wildlife park, said her daughter was dedicated to her job and "it's what she had always loved".more
Thousands of volunteers needed for the Pope's visit to Ireland next year will be Garda-vetted amid security concerns. The Catholic Church has just launched a recruitment drive for 3,000 helpers to organise and run the World Meeting of Families which will be held in Dublin in 2018.more
The retirement age in Britain and other leading developed countries will need to rise to 70 by the middle of the century to head off the biggest pension crisis in history, according to the World Economic Forum.more
Tumors destructively affect the work and life of the sick. More than 62 percent either resign from work or limit it during the treatment period - according to a report presented last week in Warsaw.more
Do you love cats? Would you like to spend all day petting cats - and being paid for it? If the answer to both questions is yes, you might be interested in the fact that a Dublin-based veterinary practice is looking to hire a 'cat cuddler'.
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Unemployment has fallen to levels not seen since the recession and economic collapse hit Ireland in early 2008. Figures released by the Central Statistics Office today showed 33,200 fewer people out of work at the start of this year compared to the year before.more
Residents at a Llyn care home were put at risk because a nurse's understanding of English was so poor that she had to use Google to translate during shifts, an inspectors' report has found.more
Should I retire? How many pounds can I get after years of working in the UK? What changes in primary retirement? - answers to these questions Poles from the UK can find in a special Polish publication "All about retirement in England".more
Poles, often employed in France without a contract, save the existence of strawberry farms. Without them, these plantations would have spiked - says Confederation Paysanne (Confederation of Peasants).more
60 percent of Polish employees feel tired just after waking up, more than half of them feel tired and sleepy during the day, and 1/3 admits that they are not working effectively.
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Half of workers on zero hours contracts and two in five on temporary contracts wrongly believe they are not entitled to paid holidays, a report reveals.more
For the first time, seniors outnumber children in Canada, as the population experienced its greatest increase in the proportion of older people since Confederation, according to the latest census data. more
