The Memorandum of Understanding negotiated with the EU/IMF in 2010 committed the government to reform the Joint Labour Committee (JLC) system covering low pay workers. A significant rationale for the proposed reform was the claim that JLC regulations unduly added to the cost of labour regarding...

Immigrant workers are increasingly essential to the EU economy as Europe's population continues to decline. In Ireland there has been an influx of approximately 250,000 migrants into the country since 1997. Using a recent survey of citizens in the European Union the attitudes of Irish workers...