Emmet Malone

Eight years after her son Lorcan was fatally injured in the workplace, Marian Deasy talks publicly about his death to help cut through the statistics and “put a human face on what happened”. “The statistics are gathered and that’s important,” she said at ... See more

Meta contractor Covalen announced on Monday it was proposing to make 700 workers redundant at its Dublin operation. The Communications Workers Union (CWU) has called for a meeting with the Taoiseach and Minister for Enterprise. The company, a subsidiary o... See more

As Meta announced the loss of another 8,000 jobs at the end of last week, citing its investment in AI, the suggestion by the chair of the UK’s Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW) that the technology sometimes seems like an easy scapegoat felt prescien... See more

Union officials are hoping a meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin on Thursday could lead to a breakthrough regarding support for frontline healthcare staff suffering the effects of Long Covid who are on half pay. The issue has dragged on for several year... See more

The number of complaints made to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) last year alleging discrimination by business was up by more than half to almost 1,000, according to newly-published figures. Complaints made under the Equality Acts, relating to cl... See more