# unemployment - Today’s News
# unemployment - Yesterday’s News
With youth unemployment at 23 per cent, the European Union and policy makers have a collective responsibility and obligation to help the “Lost Generation”, writes Liam Aylward.
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# unemployment - Saturday 11 May, 2013
Despite soaring youth unemployment rates, there are two million job vacancies across Europe due to a lack of skilled individuals in specific sectors. It’s time to think strategically about how to fill the gaps, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# unemployment - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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Ireland’s unemployment rate remains at 14.0 per cent, as a real-terms fall in claimants is undone by statistical adjustment.
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# unemployment - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Over 19 million people are unemployed in the eurozone but Ireland has recorded one of the largest year-on-year decreases in unemployment rates.
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# unemployment - Thursday 25 April, 2013
More than six million people in Spain are now without work.
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# unemployment - Monday 22 April, 2013
While the report found that there had been a stabilization in the jobs market it warned against any additional tax increases.
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# unemployment - Sunday 7 April, 2013
Non-profit organisation Toastmasters helps members improve communication skills – and has some tips for those facing an interview.
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# unemployment - Saturday 6 April, 2013
The EU needs to either get on with integration, proper banking and political union or separate into amicable trading partners and neighbours, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# unemployment - Thursday 4 April, 2013
Unemployment stayed at 14.0 per cent last month with only a minor drop in the numbers signing on.
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# unemployment - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
USI wants a ‘significant investment’ in youth job creation – but younger people are also less likely to have pressures like mortgages.
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Latest figures have shown that 30.8 per cent of those under 25 years of age are now unemployed.
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# unemployment - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
There is a total of 19.071 million people unemployed in the eurozone.
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Manufacturing indexes across Europe paint a stark picture this morning.
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# unemployment - Thursday 14 March, 2013
The Spanish government has promised its law will now be “corrected” to comply with the ruling.
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Autism services have been historically underfunded, but with the new Autism Bill steps are finally being taken to acknowledge the rights of autistic citizens and those of their families, writes Michael McCarthy TD.
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# unemployment - Friday 8 March, 2013
Jobseeker’s benefit was the only payment that had a lower rate of suspected fraud than departmental error.
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# unemployment - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Nationally, there has been a 64 per cent decline in the ratio of employed to unemployed people with less than 5 people working for every person out of work.
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# unemployment - Friday 1 March, 2013
The CSO report said that the decline in employment activity for foreign nationals has not resulted in a corresponding increase in social welfare activity.
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Meanwhile, eurozone unemployment hit a record 11.9 per cent in January with just under 19 million now out of work in the 17-member bloc.
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Although there has been a drop in the unemployment figures, there are still many people searching for work. To mark National Jobseekers’ Day, Robert Mac Giolla Phadrig has some tips to help.
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# unemployment - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Unemployment stood at 14.2pc at the end of 2012 – down 0.4pc in three months – but emigration played a key role.
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# unemployment - Friday 22 February, 2013
The Government launched its Action Plan on Jobs for 2013 today.
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# unemployment - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
A jobs committee has made a number of recommendations, including introducing a €1 million Youth Entrepreneurship Fund.
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# unemployment - Monday 18 February, 2013
The contemporary world values people in terms of what they do for a living, so what is that saying to the unemployed, asks Tom Boland.
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The generation suffering the most from the current debt crisis is the same one which will be approaching retirement in 35 years when the promissory note debt matures, writes Dan Hayden.
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# unemployment - Friday 15 February, 2013
The ‘Living Cities’ scheme is all about urban regeneration and the aim is to revitalise retail in Waterford City – and Limerick – through a series of tax incentives, writes Ciara Conway TD.
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# unemployment - Thursday 14 February, 2013
The report – the first in-depth examination of the impact of current austerity policies within Europe – has called for a ‘fair solution’.
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# unemployment - Thursday 7 February, 2013
Last night the Finance minister said he understood most staff would be rehired by the liquidators or by NAMA when it takes on the bank’s assets.
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# unemployment - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The Minister for Social Protection said that without welfare payment, “millions of families across the EU would literally be left with nothing”.
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# unemployment - Friday 1 February, 2013
The Taoiseach has launched the plan’s fourth report, saying that the rate of unemployment “remains unacceptably high” in Ireland.
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# unemployment - Thursday 31 January, 2013
The ESRI said the driving force behind the reduction in unemployment is ongoing net emigration.
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# unemployment - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
The number of people on the Live Register fell for the seventh month in-a-row.
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# unemployment - Monday 28 January, 2013
Most of those attending the World Economic Forum in Davos last week reckoned the four-year crisis is over, but what do you think?
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# unemployment - Saturday 26 January, 2013
Also, how many of Kerry’s councillors actually favour relaxed drink-driving rules? And just how rich is Apple?
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# unemployment - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
His comments came in light of a report today that showed a rise in suicide in Ireland clashed with both the economic downturn and an increase in unemployment.
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# unemployment - Sunday 20 January, 2013
Jobs may be scarce on the ground – but they still exist. Here’s how to do everything you possibly can to find the job you want.
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# unemployment - Monday 14 January, 2013
Hireland, the voluntary initiative which urges SMEs to pledge to take on more staff, helped created 4,000 jobs in its first year.
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# unemployment - Saturday 12 January, 2013
How many women in Ireland smoke? Were consumers panicked by Budget announcements? And how many people watched Darren die?
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# unemployment - Friday 11 January, 2013
Leaked bailout documents reveal new Department of Social Protection plans to get longstanding jobseekers back to work.
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