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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) recently published its findings on the potential cumulative impact of implemented and proposed UK Government tax and welfare reforms on people sharing different protected characteristics.  The repo...

The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, T.D., has today announced that she will facilitate access, from 1 June this year, to Community Employment (CE) and Tús schemes for long-term unemployed jobseekers who a...

Workways+ continues to charge forward successfully supporting people overcome complex barriers which prevent them from finding employment. One such success story is 41-year-old Mark from Neath Port Talbot. Mark was referred to Workways+ by Jobcentre...

Mr Justice Ouseley accepted the claim brought by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) on behalf of one claimant household that the exception to the two-child rule for cared-for children was perverse because it was only available where the cared-for...

Amber Rudd’s decision to delay the Immigration Bill until next year Rudd is facing pressure from Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey and Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom, among others, to move faster with her proposals for a post-Brexit immig...

An Post processed 33.6 million social welfare payments in 2017 Thursday, 19 April, 2018: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection Regina Doherty, T.D. has today renewed her Department’s contract with An Post to provide pensions, Ch...

A report from the Federation of Small Businesses has warned small childcare providers are facing "an unsustainable future".  A Women’s Equality Party spokesperson said: “This is further evidence of the damaging impact caused by the G...

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- 10.30 a.m. Thursday 19th April 2018 - Róisín Shortall TD and Senator John Dolan of the Disability Federation of Ireland will today hold a protest at Leinster House to highlight the government's betrayal of 640,000 people with dis...

Increases to minimum wages have gathered pace since 2010, with the highest increases recorded in countries which had the lowest minimum wages. However, a large gap remains with minimum wage workers in Bulgaria, the country with the lowest statutory m...