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The Week in Brief

Babylon Radio’s weekly column is here to provide you with a quick insight into some of the world’s most pressing issues. Mass demonstrations, natural disasters and a string of arrests. The past week has conjured up a variety of notable…

Luas facing complete shut down

Transdev warns of possible lay offs or short term working if dispute continues. An Industrial relations and human resources expert is predicting the complete shut down of the Luas service and says that a Task Force could help end the…

Good News

Regulator says strong growth in domestic demand will push GDP growth up to 5.1% this year.   The Central Bank has revised its growth forecast upwards for the Irish economy for 2016, and is now predicting growth of 5.1 per…

Don’t make the au pairs angry!

Virginija Petrauskaite, a Spanish au pair, obtained almost €10,000 from the Workplace Relation Commission because her host family didn’t respect the employment law.   “I want to say to all au pairs: you deserve to be respected, because you have…

Northern Europe Best for Working Women

Women Working

For The United Nations’ International Women’s Day today, we have a chart which shows where women have the best chances of being treated equally at work. It combines information on education, labour-force participation, salaries, child-care rates, maternity benefits, business-school students…

Everything Gonna Be Alright

Eurozone unemployment is lowest since August 2011. More people have jobs now, more spend money, more jobs should be created in the coming months. The best situation in Europe is now in Germany (4.3%) and the worst, but still better…