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Agency Workers Directive

While Agency workers do not have the same employment rights as regular workers, under the EU Directive on Temporary Agency Work, Temporary Agency Workers have the right to equal treatment regarding basic employment conditions. The EU Directive on Temporary Agency Work came into effect on the 5 December 2011. The Directive is transposed into Irish Law by the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012. It provides that all Temporary Agency Workers must have equal treatment with regular workers in respect of hours of work and rest periods; pay and work done by pregnant woman, children and young people. The Act came into effect on the 16 May 2012. Temporary Agency Workers covered by the Act have the right to the same employment conditions as if they had been directly employed by the hirer under a Contract of Employment. The right to equal pay has retrospective effect to the 5 December 2011. The Act applies to Agency Workers employed by an Employment Agency who are assigned to work for a temporary period to another Organisation. The Act may exclude employees under a Managed Service Contract which is a Contract for Services, for example, cleaning, where the Contractor is responsible for managing and delivering the service. The Act does not apply to work done in the course of a Work Placement Scheme or any publicly funded Vocational Training or a Re-training Scheme. Pay is defined as including only basic pay, shift premium, piece rates, over-time premium, unsocial hours premium and Sunday premium. Pay does not include Occupational Pension Schemes, Financial Participation Schemes, Sick Pay Schemes, Benefits-in-Kind or Bonus Payments.

CORPORATION TAX INCENTIVES

They may not be politically popular in the current climate of austerity where everyone is feeling the pinch, but maintaining and improving tax incentives for business must remain a core component of industrial strategy, Kevin McLoughlin, head of tax services with Ernst & Young, opines in The Sunday Business Post.

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JOBS INITIATIVE

Plans for a €44m investment in areas such as ICT, biotechnology and energy will play a key role in the Government’s forthcoming jobs initiative package, according to Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

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AIB LOSES 2,000 JOBS

AIB will this week announce it intends to shed 2,000 jobs across its operations on a phased basis and is also expected to outline plans to reduce its loan portfolios by up to €19 billion, according to The Sunday Times.

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THE JOBS BUDGET

The government is to unveil its so-called ‘Jobs Budget’ in May, shortly before the arrival of Queen Elizabeth and President Obama, The Sunday Independent reports.

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TECHNOLOGY JOBS

Good news on the employment front in one sector at least. Citing “informed sources”, The Sunday Business Post says hundreds of jobs will be announced in the technology sector in the coming days, with the investment taking place outside Dublin.

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THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE

The decision to pull the plug on the Sunday Tribune after decades of losses, may have more significance than most for Ireland’s political classes than many other closures (or threatened closures in this case as a stay of execution is still pending).

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TECHNOLOGY JOBS

Salaries in some software and technology companies have jumped 15% recently and The Sunday Business Post reports that Ireland faces a new IT skills shortage.

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STOCKBROKING

Times is tough it seems for the boys in the pin-striped suits. Dublin’s stockbrokers aren’t sure where their next bottle of Dom Perignon is coming from these days. A flurry of legal actions over corporate deals gone wrong could see the biggest ever consolidation in the sector in Ireland.

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EIRCOM TO REVEAL SECRET

What the Sunday Times calls “the worst-kept secret in the Irish mobile phone industry” is to be officially announced next month, when Eircom launches its own mobile phone brand.

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WORKY IS REPOSITIONED

Ray Nolan, who set up the successful Irish accommodations company Web Reservations International, is to relaunch his website Worky, which provides a service that matches jobs to candidate skills.

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HOMEWORKING

“Homework pays off for start-ups” was the intriguing headline on a half-page feature in the Sunday Times. The article underlined the ever-expanding value of running small businesses from home.

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