Overcrowding
Gap widening
Low wages?
Winners and losers
Once you concede the principle that the wage should rise, the opposition will always outbid you, and you will always look niggardly by comparison.
In the same year, an additional 176 RTÉ staff earned between €80,000 and €100,000.
18 out of 19 Government Departments will see increases in salaries, wages and allowances for their staff in 2021. The increases are in addition to the hundreds of thousands of euros allocated to each Department’s staff in the Travel and Subsistence category. This follows confirmation that the Government’s National Economic Recovery Plan announced today includes […]
Today, an email somehow found its way into my inbox with some revealing numbers which go some way towards explaining the enormous cost required to ensure the United Nations remains the toothless organisation it has become. The missive came from a Director of Personnel at the UN’s headquarters in New York – the behemoth also operates three additional […]
Last week it was announced that Google had been given the green light to proceed with their plan to create a “new urban centre” as part of their €300 million development at the former Boland’s Mill site on the south Dublin docks. Planning consultants John Spain Associates claimed that the project which will include various […]
The Keelings controversy about has brought public attention to how EU and related member state legislation allows agencies – and those who contract migrant workers from them – to avoid domestic minimum wage and other requirements. As everyone knows, the current furore began when a photo published was which showed some of the 189 migrant […]
A report released today from KBC bank indicates that first-time buyers need to be earning nearly €100,000 a year to secure a mortgage for a new home in Dublin. In the real world, that means at least 80% of Irish people are now priced out of the housing market in the capital. KBC’s study noted that the […]
The Charity Commission has warned contraception and abortion provider Maries Stopes International over its decision to award chief executive Simon Cooke ‘a bonus equivalent to his salary’, and has ‘launched an inquiry’, asking MSI trustees ‘to explain’ why last year his £217,250 salary ‘had been matched with a bonus worth the same amount, doubling his […]