Hard Brexit would damage ability to build houses in State, TDs told

Experts warn about reliance on the UK for imports of building materials and fossil fuels

Workplace of the future will still need humans, conference hears

Expert says ‘perceived unstoppable march of robots coming to take our jobs is overstated’

Multinationals ‘hide weakness’ in Irish economy

New report says there are three economies on the island of Ireland

Your business this week: All eyes on Brexit

Post-Brexit diversification into foreign markets plus National Women’s Enterprise Day is marked

CPL expected to exceed analyst profit goals

Your business this week: Also, economists and politicians descend on Wexford; residential property price results

Nevin Institute calls for investment in education and infrastructure

Report shows State spends less per pupil at all levels of education than European peers

State should sell its bank shares to tackle housing crisis

Vincent Boland: Despite NTMA advice, proceeds should not be used to pay down debt

This Week: National Construction Summit and Tech Summit 2018

Results due from Apple, Merck, Pfizer, Aon and Tesla, McDonalds and Trinity Biotech

Conference gives wind energy industry a boost

The week in business: results from IFG, euro zone unemployment and UK inflation

Dramatic week in Anglo-Irish relations ends with a deal

Business Week: State’s corporate tax affairs in the dock (again)

Multinational tax planning ‘distorting’ Irish economy

Nevin think tank highlights impact of intellectual property onshoring in latest report

This Week: The events lined up in the business world

There’s the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, plus results from Avis Budget and Trip Advisor

O’Leary red faced as Ryanair endures torrid week

Business Week: budget hints, tax summit, housing crisis and a raft of jobs

Don’t cut taxes in the Budget - Neri

Case for cutting taxes ‘extremely weak’ given need for housing and infrastructure, economic institute says

Homage to Barcelona: reliving Orwell’s Spanish Civil War adventures

A tour based on the writer’s wartime experiences reveals a haunting history of the city

Corbyn’s youth support is about economics, not idealism

Irish parties have yet to realise that millennials have rejected a market-led system

Not feeling the economic recovery? You’re not alone

The financial outlook for many is dominated by stagnating wages, high personal debt and persistent negative equity

Can Varadkar’s ‘hidden fiscal space’ finance tax cuts?

Taoiseach suggests tax cuts may be funded by cutting expenditure elsewhere

Business Week: Britain sets a date for the long goodbye

Also in the news: cuts at RTÉ, tensions at INM, and job losses at Ulster Bank

Calls for new state company to supply rental housing

Nevin Economic Research Institute says reliance on private sector is not working

Are women workers in the public sector paid too much?

Women in public sector earn more than those in private sector, CSO figures show

No benefit for North in single market if UK leaves, think tank says

Hard Brexit feeding Northern inflation, rising to 2.7%, according to Nevin Institute

John McManus: Only one in five is living the Irish dream

Fair rewards are elusive and this creates a breeding ground for populist solutions

Public sector pay rises? We cannot afford them

Government has little room for manoeuvre in showdown with unions

Unions to seek rises of 4% for workers in private sector companies

Employers criticise move as ‘crude opportunism’

Why one in three earners pays no income tax

No budget largesse for many self-employed, such as an increase in earned income credit

Childcare measures in budget a good start but we still have long way to go

Lower childcare costs would do more to encourage labour market participation

Brexit fuels debate over State’s minimum wage

Business groups seize on UK vote and Low Pay Commission dissent to oppose hikes

Three-quarters of minimum wage earners are female

Some 70,000 Irish employees – 5% of workforce – earning statutory minimum wage

Where is evidence that we are over-spending on health?

On relatively simple comparison of total spending, Republic not much different to similar EU countries

Business Week: clamour for ‘stable government’ as Brexit vote looms

Week also dominated by a raft of company results and controversies over executive pay

Brexit threatens plans to ramp up FDI in North – ESRI

Leaving EU might make some people in UK feel better but it is likely to make everyone poorer, conference told

North is the region most at risk from Brexit, says report

Northern Ireland could lose access to more than €400m EU funding and support

Nevin Institute: Six out of ten low paid workers are female

Almost a quarter of all low paid women work in the Dublin region

Nevin Institute: Unemployment to fall below 8% next year

Quarterly economic observer forecasts GDP growth of 4.4% in 2016

Ireland should introduce financial transaction tax, says civil group

Robin Hood Tax Campaign says money could be used to tackle poverty, global warming

Unions should seek pay rises of up to 5% in 2016 - Ictu

Congress says unions should ‘give consideration’ to introduction of €11.50 living wage

Lidl won’t say if it will increase living wage in Ireland

German group is first supermarket chain to sign up to Britain’s higher pay campaign

Proposed US-EU trade deal will uphold standards, says EU

Standards on consumer, health or environmental protection will not be ‘watered down’

Line between employees and self-employed becoming blurred

In today’s diverse, complex workplace, the rights of workers are harder to protect

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