New unemployment payment linked to past working history set to be introduced when PUP is phased out
Varadkar said the phasing out of the PUP provides an opportunity to reform the country’s social welfare system.
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Varadkar said the phasing out of the PUP provides an opportunity to reform the country’s social welfare system.
Those on the PUP can sign up to courses without losing their payment.
The impact of the Level 3 restrictions is now being reflected in the PUP figures.
A new policy document on JobPath has been launched by Sinn Féin.
You can’t keep a good man down for long.
Catherine MurphyTD has raised serious concerns in the Dáil regarding the activation programme, JobPath.
Filmmaker Laura McGann chats about her new film Revolutions, which takes an in-depth look at the Irish women’s roller derby team.
The figures show that there are now 299,200 people officially signed on, compared with 340,700 from this time last year.
“People everywhere seem to have this deep-seated intuition that ill people are unfortunate and deserve to be helped.”
An anonymous contributor writes about what it’s like to find yourself jobless with no money after working for over 33 years.
Nicola Cassidy, a former Green Party press officer, chronicles what happens when it all goes pear shaped.
It’s election-time and all I have to my name is my vote, writes an anonymous contributor.
While we’re hearing that jobs are being created around the country, some people still find themselves out of work, writes Eoghan McDermott.
It’s time to change our attitude toward unemployed people, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
The bonus is paid to long-term welfare claimants such as jobseekers, pensioners, carers, lone-parents and those with a disability.
The unemployment rate has stopped falling.
Plans for courses are set to be in place in the UK by April 2017.
He said he is excited about what the future holds.
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.
She was excluded from joining the scheme because she was in receipt of a one-parent family benefit.
The Christmas Bonus will be reintroduced this year – one of two increases in the area of social welfare announced in today’s Budget.
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.
We chat to Irish-based Czech athlete Tamara Maxantova about competing in the World Championships next month.
I need an internship to get job experience but, apparently, I need more experience to get even an unpaid internship. What can you do?
Somebody told me the other day, quite abruptly, that ‘there are plenty of jobs out there’. Well, I beg to differ.
When we see homeless people, we only look at where they ended up – not the road that took them there.
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.
Sinn Féin’s Aengus Ó Snodaigh said the Gateway scheme is there to provide chronically underfunded local authorities with cheap general dogsbodies.
The INOU said participants need to be matched appropriately to suitable positions.
Is this the way forward for job hunting?
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.
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.
The new initiative that rewards employers for taking on the long term unemployed was launched during the summer.
A course in Construction, Management, Maintenance and Refurbishment was due to begin on 9 September, but was cancelled last week.
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.
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.
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.
There is a total of 19.071 million people unemployed in the eurozone.