Elsewhere, "Artificial intelligence is creating a “jobs drought” for graduates and younger people seeking entry-level employment, and things are only going to get worse", that's according to James Reed, chair of the world’s largest family-run recruitment firm. Speaking at the Other Voices festival in Dingle, Reed said in his 30-plus years in the recruitment business he had never seen shrinking vacancies in a growing economy and the trend is endemic.
Meanwhile, the CWU has written to management at Covalen, a major provider of content moderation services to Facebook parent Meta, seeking a meeting after the firm told staff last Thursday it is seeking about 400 redundancies.
Finally, Ibec has "expressed alarm at Government plans to introduce last-minute legislation to prevent perceived abuse of the State’s new mandatory workplace pension scheme" which is due to come into effect on 1st January.
On Saturday afternoon I had the great pleasure of seeing Barbara Bergin's epic play Dublin Gothic at the Abbey Theatre. A century of history plays through her fictional Northside Dublin tenement building, with 16 actors performing 100 roles. Highly recommended.
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