0 Comments Why talk of 'full employment' rings hollow in the north west BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Leading economist Richard Ramsey recently stated that Northern Ireland was "effectively at full employment" as official figures showed the jobless rate to be 3.5%. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/why-talk-of-full-employment-rings-hollow-in-the-north-west-36832058.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/article36832054.ece/9d303/AUTOCROP/h342/2018-04-23_new_40337907_I1.JPG Email Leading economist Richard Ramsey recently stated that Northern Ireland was "effectively at full employment" as official figures showed the jobless rate to be 3.5%. Although that is a record low, the statement caused no little annoyance in the north west, with SDLP leader Colum Eastwood MLA inviting anyone who thinks there is full employment to spend some time in his Foyle constituency office. Londonderry has the highest unemployment rate in the province, with … [Read more...] about Why talk of ‘full employment’ rings hollow in the north west
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Employers urged to get on their bikes
0 Comments Employers urged to get on their bikes BelfastTelegraph.co.uk A new employer cycle accreditation scheme has been set up in to alleviate traffic congestion and boost productivity. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/northern-ireland/employers-urged-to-get-on-their-bikes-36827833.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/article36827832.ece/741f2/AUTOCROP/h342/2018-04-23_bus_40281053_I1.JPG Email A new employer cycle accreditation scheme has been set up in to alleviate traffic congestion and boost productivity. Concentrix and Allstate NI are among the organisations to have already signed up to the European Cycle-Friendly Employer Accreditation Scheme. They will receive benefits including assistance to install bike parking and showers. Sustrans, the charity delivering the scheme, said that people who cycle to work take nearly 7,000 cars off the road in Northern Ireland. It added that employees who commute by bike take one day less off per year than … [Read more...] about Employers urged to get on their bikes
Warning for local care worker who failed to tell employer she had conviction for assaulting a child
News / Local / Perthshire by Steven Rae April 23, 2018, 6:05 am FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter A Tayside care worker who failed to tell her employer she assaulted a child has avoided being struck off the register of social workers. Amanda Fuller, 32, faced a Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) fitness to practise panel. Ms Fuller, from Perth, was employed by HC-One Healthcare and working as a support worker in a care home service for adults when criminal charges were brought against her. She stood trial at Perth Sheriff Court on March 7 last year and was subsequently found guilty of kicking the child’s face. At sentencing at the court on May 10, she had a community payback order imposed, which involved 12 months of supervision and 90 hours of unpaid work. Last week a warning was imposed on her registration for a period of one year by the SSSC panel. In her submissions to the panel on April 9 and 10, Ms Fuller said … [Read more...] about Warning for local care worker who failed to tell employer she had conviction for assaulting a child
Calls to make employment great again? That’s Trumpian nonsense
Ireland's appalling record on employment growth over most of that century is one reason why there is less fuzzy-headed nostalgia about the past in this country than in some others, of the Make-America-Great-Again variety so beloved of Donald Trump. In many peer countries, and despite the drudgery of assembly-line work, the decline of employment in heavy industry is lamented because jobs for life in manufacturing have come to be seen as better than less long-lasting service sector jobs. In spite of the facts that the Republic never industrialised and its 20th-century employment record was so grim, suggestions of a past in which jobs and employment conditions were much better are often made. Even more common are claims of an unstoppable proliferation of zero-hour contracts, bogus self-employment and other forms of awfulness in the world of work. … [Read more...] about Calls to make employment great again? That’s Trumpian nonsense
Sverigedemokraterna employs criminal offenders despite alleged hard stance on crime
Expressen now reports that several convicted criminals have taken the“ backway to power“ by employment at the party’s registry. Among the crimes commited by Sverigedemokraterna’s employees are assault, violence against staff, robbery and weapons offences.Despite a criminal history among several of its staff members, Sverigedemokraterna has promised its voters a hard stance against crime. Before the elections, all candidates where required to sign a character statement where they testified to have no criminal history. Among the convicted criminals that work at Sverigedemokraterna’s registry are: the Press Secretary to the party chairman (convicted for violence against staff); a secretary (convicted of assaulting a 15 year old girl), and the Registry Sectretary (convicted of assault with a baton and commiting two robberies and one attempted robbery with a carbonic pistol). Sverigedemokraterna’s part chairman, Jimmie Akesson refused to comment on … [Read more...] about Sverigedemokraterna employs criminal offenders despite alleged hard stance on crime