In the Indo Anne Marie Walsh reports on a Labour Court recommendation for staff at Dundalk Institute of Technology, who are to be compensated for being moved from weekly to fortnightly pay with "hardship" vouchers worth up to €300 each.

The Irish Times reports today that the State is facing a liability of almost €2.8 billion to fund future personal injury and property claims against the HSE; the Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe is planning for “modest” increases in property tax next year, he's also to proceed with plans to allow credit unions increase the cost of loans they offer their customers (despite Cabinet opposition), and Cabinet is to consider a new report into the outsourcing of smear tests.

Meanwhile, the IT reports that an internal report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reveals that people dwelling in rural towns face concentrations of harmful air pollutants which can be more than double those recorded in Dublin.

In case you missed it, Hot Press magazine last week published the full transcript of President Michael D Higgin's speech to the EPSU Congress last week. The same speech generated a host of Higgins vs Trump front page headlines last week, as Michael D stepped up his criticism of the current US administration's attitude to climate action. The Hot Press sub editor adds: "There is a huge amount more in what is an important contribution to the debate about the future of the planet – and the potential role of unions in it."

In Twittersphere news, our colleague Joe O'Connor picked up on this 29th May report on RTE about a survey revealing that 57% of office workers here believe that a four-day working week is likely in the near future as technology makes work practices more efficient. Joe also pops up in this piece on fora.ie about the four day week, and is due to take part on the Journal.ie podcast on the subject this week.

Elsewhere, I picked up this thread last weekend by web designer Jane Ruffino about how digital hiring enables age discrimination. Ruffino's thread was prompted by this New York Times article by Patricia Cohen. The key point of interest here is that the subtleties of this latest form of age discrimination make it capable of bypassing our current equality legislation.

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Your Zen this morning is a Netflix recommendation, as Jon Favreau and Roy Choi take to the air with The Chef Show (click the image above for the trailer), a cooking show that is pretty much a perfect binge for foodies.

Favreau is the film director responsible for Iron Man, the film that launched the Marvel movie franchise into the stratosphere. He also made the recent eye-popping live action version of Jungle Book.

His earlier work includes the excellent Swingers and, more recently, Chef, in which Favreau himself plays a burnt out master chef who takes to the road in a food truck across the US. It's a great movie and highly recommended, and The Chef Show was created by Favreau so that he could cook with Choi again, who was his food advisor on Chef.

Have a good day, I'm off up to Sligo to record a podcast episode with the branch up there.