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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.”
Banning “if-and-when” contacts would be one major step to take.
Bottles in the post to retirees of some distilleries have fed rumours of pensions paid in the golden stuff. There’s some history behind the myth.
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.
There was low turnout to this month’s council meeting at City Hall, but the councillors who turned up talked about making Dublin dementia-friendly, tackling bogus self-employment, and more.
Right now, a blow to even a single large player could have serious consequences for a lot of real jobs, writes UCD political economy lecturer Andy Storey.
They say companies are cutting paperwork corners in ways that can mean less pay, or at least fewer benefits, for the workers.
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