# unemployed - Saturday 6 February, 2021
# Unemployment
# Unemployment
Varadkar said the phasing out of the PUP provides an opportunity to reform the country’s social welfare system.
# unemployed - Monday 18 January, 2021
# Unemployed
# Unemployed
Those on the PUP can sign up to courses without losing their payment.
# unemployed - Monday 28 September, 2020
# PUP
# PUP
The impact of the Level 3 restrictions is now being reflected in the PUP figures.
# unemployed - Saturday 6 April, 2019
# Unemployed
# Unemployed
A new policy document on JobPath has been launched by Sinn Féin.
# unemployed - Thursday 31 May, 2018
# Job Hunt
From The42
# Job Hunt
You can’t keep a good man down for long.
# unemployed - Saturday 7 October, 2017
# Jobseekers
# Jobseekers
Catherine MurphyTD has raised serious concerns in the Dáil regarding the activation programme, JobPath.
# unemployed - Sunday 25 June, 2017
# A True Underdog Story
From The42
# A True Underdog Story
Filmmaker Laura McGann chats about her new film Revolutions, which takes an in-depth look at the Irish women’s roller derby team.
# unemployed - Thursday 1 September, 2016
# Unemployment
# Unemployment
The figures show that there are now 299,200 people officially signed on, compared with 340,700 from this time last year.
# unemployed - Sunday 5 June, 2016
# Help The Needy
# Help The Needy
“People everywhere seem to have this deep-seated intuition that ill people are unfortunate and deserve to be helped.”
# unemployed - Monday 28 March, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
An anonymous contributor writes about what it’s like to find yourself jobless with no money after working for over 33 years.
# unemployed - Thursday 3 March, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
Nicola Cassidy, a former Green Party press officer, chronicles what happens when it all goes pear shaped.
# unemployed - Sunday 14 February, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
It’s election-time and all I have to my name is my vote, writes an anonymous contributor.
# unemployed - Monday 1 February, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
While we’re hearing that jobs are being created around the country, some people still find themselves out of work, writes Eoghan McDermott.
# unemployed - Sunday 1 November, 2015
# Opinion
# Opinion
It’s time to change our attitude toward unemployed people, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
# unemployed - Monday 14 September, 2015
# Promises
# Promises
The bonus is paid to long-term welfare claimants such as jobseekers, pensioners, carers, lone-parents and those with a disability.
# unemployed - Tuesday 1 September, 2015
# Flatlined
# Flatlined
The unemployment rate has stopped falling.
# unemployed - Monday 17 August, 2015
# Your Say
# Your Say
Plans for courses are set to be in place in the UK by April 2017.
# unemployed - Tuesday 17 March, 2015
# New Beginnings
# New Beginnings
He said he is excited about what the future holds.
# unemployed - Tuesday 16 December, 2014
# Good Samaritan
# Good Samaritan
The 41-year-old from Dublin has been unemployed for the last two years after a heart attack forced him to give up his job as a professional chef.
# unemployed - Monday 17 November, 2014
# Single Parent
# Single Parent
She was excluded from joining the scheme because she was in receipt of a one-parent family benefit.
# unemployed - Tuesday 14 October, 2014
# Every Little Helps
# Every Little Helps
The Christmas Bonus will be reintroduced this year – one of two increases in the area of social welfare announced in today’s Budget.
# unemployed - Monday 13 October, 2014
# Budget 2015
# Budget 2015
We spoke to some readers about their hopes and fears ahead of tomorrow’s budget. Here’s what they had to say, in their own words.
# unemployed - Monday 6 October, 2014
# unemployed - Sunday 14 September, 2014
# Interview
From The42
# Interview
We chat to Irish-based Czech athlete Tamara Maxantova about competing in the World Championships next month.
# unemployed - Tuesday 12 August, 2014
# Unemployed
# Unemployed
I need an internship to get job experience but, apparently, I need more experience to get even an unpaid internship. What can you do?
# unemployed - Sunday 22 June, 2014
# Looking For Work
# Looking For Work
Somebody told me the other day, quite abruptly, that ‘there are plenty of jobs out there’. Well, I beg to differ.
# unemployed - Thursday 12 June, 2014
# Homeless
# Homeless
When we see homeless people, we only look at where they ended up – not the road that took them there.
# unemployed - Saturday 10 May, 2014
# Taxed
# Taxed
The man, who has a community work placement, says he understands he has to work for his money but he was told he would get an extra €20.
# unemployed - Tuesday 11 March, 2014
# Slave Labour
# Slave Labour
Sinn Féin’s Aengus Ó Snodaigh said the Gateway scheme is there to provide chronically underfunded local authorities with cheap general dogsbodies.
# unemployed - Friday 21 February, 2014
# Back To Work
# Back To Work
The INOU said participants need to be matched appropriately to suitable positions.
# unemployed - Wednesday 5 February, 2014
# Funemployed
From The Daily Edge
# Funemployed
Is this the way forward for job hunting?
# unemployed - Friday 6 December, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Young people, and all of those who are unemployed, should not accept the choice the government is trying to offer us between emigration or life on the dole and in unpaid work, writes Kevin Coughlan.
# unemployed - Saturday 16 November, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Large sections of our society are not being represented by the mainstream media – excluding valid perspectives and life experience from the national conversation, says Katie Varvos.
# unemployed - Thursday 10 October, 2013
# Back To Work
# Back To Work
The new initiative that rewards employers for taking on the long term unemployed was launched during the summer.
# unemployed - Monday 2 September, 2013
# Education
# Education
A course in Construction, Management, Maintenance and Refurbishment was due to begin on 9 September, but was cancelled last week.
# unemployed - Saturday 29 June, 2013
# Read Me
# Read Me
I was offered a job abroad and even though I had no family or friends there, I had to take it, writes Seanán Ó Coistín.
# unemployed - Thursday 23 May, 2013
# Vacancies
# Vacancies
A survey of 38 major tech companies estimates there’s 4,500 job vacancies in the ICT sector, but there is a major skills shortage.
# unemployed - Sunday 5 May, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
A former IMF head of the mission for Ireland has said an entire reliance on austerity was not the right move – yet we’re still following that road. David Cronin asks why.
# unemployed - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
# 5 At 5
# 5 At 5
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
# Unemployment
# Unemployment
There is a total of 19.071 million people unemployed in the eurozone.
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