Business Briefs – deposit rate cuts, social welfare entitlement and more
In our latest Business Briefs roundup, we look at the cut to deposit rates for regular savers, the entitlement of self-employed workers to welfare and more…
Corpoworking – the new trend in big business
Corpoworking is a new concept that has at its core the ideal of sharing knowledge and innovative ideas in big business. It builds on the concept of co-working spaces.
Economic Outlook by Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev
This economic outlook is provided by Dr Constantin Gurdgiev who is the Adjunct Assistant Professor of Finance with Trinity College, Dublin and serves as a co-founder and a Director of the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation Ltd and a co-founder of iCare Housing Solutions, two non-profit organisations working with the issues of financial empowerment.
There is something ‘mental’ in economic fundamentals. And that is far from being the fake news. In fact, in recent years of the post-Global Crises recovery, economic data and markets statistics have witnessed a sustained decline in the quality of signals they carry to the public, the policymakers and investors alike. This ominous trend is evident from small economies, like Ireland, to the largest ones, like China and the U.S.
New law curbs zero-hour contracts
The Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act has just come into effect in Ireland. It is one of the most important changes in dealing with employment protection to be promulgated in this country for several decades. It provides greater support for people who have casual or precarious employment arrangements.
Congratulations To Our Six Nations Competition Winner
We’re delighted to announce that Suzanne Toal of Suzanne Toal Photography is the winner of our Six Nations competition. Here she is pictured with John Kerr of Cathedral Financial Consultants Ltd receiving her iPad Mini. Congrats Suzanne!
Win an iPad Mini in our Six Nations Competition
It wouldn’t be spring without the Six Nations Championship to look forward to and we are loving the 2019 season! So much so that we’ve decided to run a competition in collaboration with the Dundalk Democrat.
Proposed Government changes to negatively affect thousands of private sector pension holders
The Minister for Social Protection has recently introduced changes which will severely and negatively impact self-administered pensions.
How to deal with sexual harassment at work?
Google recently made world news when its employees took a stand against its poor handling of sexual harassment charges and walked out of the workplace.
How do you handle friendly rivals at work?
The Brownlee brothers impressed Theresa May but we could all learn something from them. The other day I met two young men from Yorkshire who have come to embody the spirit of sportsmanship and comradely teamwork. Yet the British triathlon stars, Alistair and Jonny Brownlee, turned out to be more riveting on a different matter: how to deal with a close work colleague who becomes a worrisome rival.
Collaboration draws on differences to reach a better outcome than working solo
People working as teams sometimes adopt ideas that fail, simply because they do not think them through properly.
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