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Majority of main family earners caring for children with life limiting conditions forced to give up job
New research conducted by the Cliona Foundation has revealed that in more than 70% of families who received assistance from the Foundation, the main breadwinner has had to give up work to look after their child.
Significant number of employers signal wage increases as salaries experience rises during 2022
Employers could have a fight on their hands to hold onto their staff this year – six in ten (60percent) workers could potentially change jobs in 2023 and almost one in three (30percent) are definitely considering it.
Tanaiste announces 30 cent increase in national minimum wage payment
The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Leo Varadkar, has received Government approval to accept the recommendation from the Low Pay Commission to increase the National Minimum Wage to €10.50 per hour from January 1 2022.
James Connolly and why he still matters in 2018
“Socialism will confiscate the property of the capitalist and in return will secure the individual against poverty and oppression; it, in return for so confiscating, will assure to all men and women a free, happy, and unanxious human life. And that is more than capitalism can assure anyone today.”
Increase in minimum wage will benefit lower paid workers – Burke
The Low Pay Commission is recommending an increase to the minimum wage of 30 cents, bringing it to €9.55 per hour.
The 'strong, wise' Juno and the 'boozy spoofer' Paycock
ONE OF the all-time great Irish plays, Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey, looks set to thrill Galway audiences from Wednesday June 21 to Sunday 25 in an exciting joint production by Galway Community Theatre and the Town Hall Theatre, under the trusty direction of Andrew Flynn.
Public talk on centenary of the Russian Revolution
Next week marks the 101st anniversary of the execution of James Connolly, but while every Irish person knows Connolly was a leader in the 1916 Rising in 1916, it is less well known that Connolly was a convinced Marxist, who wanted to achieve a socialist Ireland.
Think Left - a socialist conference in Galway
In 1930, Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci wrote, “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” In this era of Trump, Brexit, ISIS, and the alt-right, many will feel 2017 is very similar to the time Gramsci wrote about.
It's time we talked about a post-capitalist society
When Donald Trump was elected on a platform of far-right populism, many thought that, once in office he would soften his cough a good bit, or at least the “checks and balances” of the American political system would go some way to restrict his more madcap proposals.
