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19.03.2023 / 08:11

The 'Great Unretirement': Older people return to work

As fears of Covid-19 subside and worries around the rising cost-of-living take over, many older people are returning to the workforce, a movement known as the 'Great Unretirement'.

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Pandemic Unemployment Payment winds down today

Today marks the end of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment and remaining recipients will now transition to jobseekers' payments, if they are deemed eligible.

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€5m in funding to enhance remote working hubs

Minister for Rural and Community Development and Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys said there are now 200 remote working hubs across the country.

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Staff shortages could close 30% of tourism businesses if not addressed

A third of tourism businesses may have to close if problems they are experiencing with recruiting and retaining staff are not resolved, a new survey has found.

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Process of staff returning to the workplace can begin from today

Employers can start bringing staff back into the workplace from today onwards, following the announcement of the easing of Covid-19 restrictions on Friday.

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Return to workplace can be done a bit faster - Ibec

Danny McCoy, the chief executive of Ibec, has said the lifting of most Covid restrictions is a "positive development" and that a gradual return to the workplace can be done "that little bit faster".

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80% of workers have worked remotely at some point since Covid started - CSO

A new survey from the Central Statistics Office reveals that 90% of those aged between 35 and 44 years who could work remotely would like to do so when Covid-19 pandemic restrictions end.

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Working from home resumes to help curb spread of Covid

Employees should work from home from today unless it is necessary to attend the workplace in person.

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Should work Christmas parties be cancelled?

Nobody wants another online work Christmas party, but with Covid cases surging and immunity waning for the vaccinated, should such in-person events go ahead?

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Businesses need to remain open despite Covid - Ibec

Employers body Ibec has said that easing back on the phased return to the office is sensible but that businesses need to remain open so people can earn a living.

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Thousands begin return to office as Covid-19 measures ease

Tens of thousands of workers across the country started returning to their offices and places of work today, as Covid-19 restrictions ease further.

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Some employees may refuse to return to office - survey

A third of employers feel their organisation is not ready for staff to return to the workplace, a new survey has found.

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A third of childcare facilities could close over failure to recruit qualified workers

A third of childcare managers say their facility could face closure in the coming months due to an inability to recruit qualified workers, a new survey has found.

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A third of childcare facilities could close over failure to recruit qualified workers

A third of childcare managers say their facility could face closure in the coming months due to an inability to recruit qualified workers, a new survey has found.

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Returning to the workplace: 'I would prefer a hybrid model'

Before the pandemic, Mary Ennis' working day started early.

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Vaccine status issue may delay some offices reopening survey finds

Legal restrictions that prevent employers from finding out the coronavirus vaccine status of employees risk delaying the re-opening of offices and are costing businesses money, new research has found.

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Coronavirus: Big White Ski Resort seeking Canadians for winter workforce

Though it’s still summer, Big White Ski Resort in B.C.’s Southern Interior is already looking ahead, and working hard, for the upcoming winter ski season.Normally, the resort is loaded with out-of-country employees, including a few hundred from Australia.But during the coronavirus pandemic, finding workers from outside of Canada is proving to be problematic, as is safely housing them to lower infection risks to resort guests.Big White senior vice president Michael Ballingall told Global News on Friday that it hires 2,400 seasonal staff, and that trying to replace them “has not been easy.”“This is really the first time in my career that we have had weekly meetings about staff recruitment,” said Ballingall.Traditionally, Big White heavily

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Workplaces are slowly reopening, but can you refuse to go back?

coronavirus outbreak, provinces are slowly beginning to allow office spaces and other workplaces to reopen.However, many employees still have concerns about the rapid and easy spread of COVID-19 in these enclosed, densely populated spaces.That’s why Erin Bury, the co-founder and CEO of Willful Wills, is making the return to office “100 per cent optional” for her employees. “We started by doing a company-wide survey to find out what people’s attitudes are towards remote work and the return to the office,” Bury told Global News.

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Coronavirus: Half of Canadians OK with returning to work but don’t want kids at school, poll shows

A slim majority of Canadians are fine with returning to the office amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but they’re not ready to send their children back to school just yet, a new poll suggests.

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Minister examining Covid-19 scheme change as new mothers unable to access payment

The Minister for Finance has said he is still examining if there is a way of changing the rules around the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme to allow women returning from maternity leave to become eligible for the scheme.

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How a Teacher in Rural California Is Making It Work in Quarantine

Last fall, I parenting as both a working mom and the wife of a governor—California’s Gavin Newsom. My experiences were unique, to be sure, and yet the struggle was universal—parenting was seen as my burden and, yes, my husband’s “adorable hobby.”In a world that feels almost entirely different now—a world of Zoom meetings and distance learning, with essential workers putting their lives on the line and with unemployment on the rise—this particular imbalance has yet to be set right.

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Canadians think they’ll continue working from home when pandemic ends: poll

A new poll suggests Canadians think they’ll continue working from home once the pandemic ends.

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The Situation Room Didn’t Prepare Me for a Life Confined to My Living Room

I know what it’s like to make big decisions in small rooms, separated from the rest of the world, alone with the weight of your choices.It seems, in fact, that such acts defined my career. For six years, I was an official in the , advising secretaries of state and ambassadors, spending my days in secure rooms at the State Department, the White House, and the U.S.

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Rihanna scolds fans for asking about new album

Rihanna called out fans pestering her about new music when she’s “tryna (sic) save the world” from the coronavirus pandemic.

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Gen X Is Getting Hit Uniquely Hard By Coronavirus

I’ll admit that, at first, I thought the memes flying around social media during the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak were hilarious. An eye-roll from Ethan Hawke or a shrug from Winona Ryder was the perfect way to encapsulate how Gen X was meeting this moment.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0