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Number of insolvencies to rise next year, says Isme boss

Despite the certainty that insolvencies among small firms will increase in 2023, Neil McDonnell says Isme is not in favour of supporting ‘zombie companies’ that can’t pay their way

Will raising Ireland's minimum wage to €13 per hour be bad for business? What the research says

The minimum wage is set to be replaced by the living wage. While studies have largely backed the change, some business groups are fighting the move

Commission calls for higher taxes ‘challenging’ - Donohoe

Expert group advises a shift in the balance of taxation away from tax on labour, but acknowledges that recommendations are being issued amid high inflation

Law Society and Bar Council at odds with SME lobby group over legal costs report

Irish SME association hits out at report recommending controlling legal costs by system of non-binding guidelines rather than table of maximum costs

Workers can check out, but never leave: Can the government’s controversial plan defuse the pensions timebomb?

The state’s new scheme for the 750,000 private sector workers who do not have a private pension aims to generate a pension pot of €21 billion within a decade. But opinion is already divided over whether it will work

Out of office? How unions and employers are at odds over Varadkar’s proposed ‘right to refuse’ remote working bill

Employers are clear that the Tánaiste’s bill must not force them to comply with requests for remote working, but trade unions have argued the proposed legislation does not go far enough

Remote-ish: How the country’s biggest employers want their staff to embrace a hybrid solution

A Business Post survey of 30 companies reveals that most employers plan to facilitate flexible working

Work from home arrangements will cost businesses, Isme warns

Employers’ group to tell Oireachtas committee that remote working contains additional costs for Irish companies

Isme and Ibec wrangle over say on childcare pay

The two bodies both argue they should represent employers on a joint labour committee deciding on staff conditions in the sector

Minimum wage to be increased, Varadkar says

Some 137,000 workers to get a pay rise despite resistance from business groups who say the government has given up on trying to control the cost of living

Government studies options on minimum wage rate

ICTU calls for increase of 30 cent an hour to €10.50, but employers’ group Isme warns of possible wage spiral

Isme boss claims solicitors are acting contrary to clients’ best interests in personal injury cases

If clients are receiving less compensation by litigating than by accepting a payout settlement on foot of legal advice, they are being shortchanged by their lawyers, small business group says

No legal basis for employers to process workers’ vaccine status, DPC rules

Data watchdog says lack of public health advice requiring businesses to collect vaccination data means doing so may be ‘unnecessary and excessive’

PUP should be cut faster to get workers back, Isme says

Group says lack of state guidance on companies’ right to staff vaccination status puts employers in an impossible position

Retail tops list of employment law breaches, WRC finds

Inspectors from the Workplace Relations Commission identified 1,760 breaches of employment law during 2020

Sale of Ulster Bank’s loan book will make a ‘serious situation considerably worse’ for SMEs

SMEs are concerned that ‘effectively, Allied Irish Bank and Bank of Ireland will have 95 per cent of the commercial loan book in the state’

Coalition consults AG on ‘difficult and complicated’ PUP redundancy issue

Employees who spent up to a year on state support can’t count it as part of their service if they lose their jobs when the pandemic ends

Comment: Many small businesses will become insolvent once government supports end

Reform of our examinership laws is necessary to save some of the jobs and firms at risk, while now is the time for the government to spend – but it must spend wisely