Linda Keitasha remembers the day she sent out 30 CVs, and got one response back, she says, with a laugh. “But they had meant to write back to somebody else.”
Neither the contractor nor the subcontractor replied to our queries about the issue. Trinity has appointed the former chair of the Labour Court, Kevin Duffy, to investigate the allegations.
Restrictions on jobs asylum seekers can hold, and a need to renew their permission to work every six months, mean it’s hard to get a permanent, high-skilled job, some job seekers say.
Dublin Bus hasn’t responded to queries sent Friday morning about whether it thinks there are problems, and if so, what they are doing to address the concerns.
A new law that took effect in March was meant to restrict zero-hour contracts, but some English-language teachers in Dublin say the schools where they teach are bending some of the rules.
For hours of travel between clients as a home-care worker in Dublin, Maria Jikijela would get a token amount. She’s one of a group trying to change how things are done.
“Everyone’s giving out about the lack of diversity in the media,” says Stephanie Costello, of the Media Interns Alliance. “But nobody’s looking after the most vulnerable: the student journalists and the interns.”
Figures out there for rates of precarious in Ireland work vary wildly, because there’s no agreed definition of the term. Something needs to be done, writes a researcher for the think tank TASC.
