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Voices from the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davro Tony Blair has been reminding party guests this week that one of his former interns is now the prime minister of Malta. Encouragement to all interns we hope - one day all that free la...

For September to November 2015, 74.0% of people aged from 16 to 64 were in work, the highest employment rate since comparable records began in 1971. The unemployment rate for September to November 2015 was 5.1%, down from 5.8% for a year earlier. It...

In the Seanad today, Senator Ivana Bacik will introduce the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 on behalf of the Labour Party Senators, as a Private Members’ Bill. Senator Aideen Hayden of Labour will second the Bill.   Speaking to propose t...

The First Minister comes under fire in regard to social care. We are in our infancy coving the Scottish Parliament but we are pleased to bring these debates to you. If you are a care working this is a debate worth following. 

SCOTLAND - is just 9,000 jobs short of closing its post-crisis ‘jobs gap’ and returning to its mid-2008 employment rate, the Resolution Foundation said today (Wednesday) as it publishes a major new report on the Scottish labour market. Th...

Welfare Reform Committee2nd Meeting, 2016  It started: 19/01/2016 10:00 Finishes: 19/01/2016 12:00 Robert Burns Room (CR1) 1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 3 in private...

And redeem his reelection chances. PARIS — François Hollande is in the last-chance saloon. With a presidential election 17 months away, the deeply unpopular French president on Monday unveiled a plan to start bringing down unemployment b...

Plaid Cymru responds to Tata steel job losses Devastating news for the affected families, and for the steel community Responding to the confirmation than more than a thousand jobs will be lost at Tata steel sites across south Wales, Plaid Cymru Shado...

The next Irish general election must take place no later than 8 April 2016. The election will be called following the dissolution of the31st Dáil by the President, at the request of the Taoiseach. The electo...

The ABC has complained to the DWP about a scheme operated locally by the Colchester Jobcentre Plus that buys all clothing and shoes from Matalan via the Flexible Support Fund. The funds management does not seem to very flexible in our view, and by ma...