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FSI releases five-year strategy for future competitiveness
Financial Services Ireland (FSI), the Ibec group representing the financial services industry in Ireland, has published its new five-year industry strategy, ‘Securing Future Competitiveness’
The growing Gaeilge opportunity
From film to music, sport to the public sector, the Irish language has become increasingly visible in Irish society over the last number of years. Read more about why.
Ireland Must Use EU Presidency to Secure Future of Biopharma Sector, Industry Group Warns
BioPharmaChem Ireland (BPCI) has called on Government to use Ireland’s upcoming Presidency of the Council of the European Union to prioritise the long-term competitiveness of Europe’s biopharmachem sector, warning that rising costs and policy gaps risk undermining future investment.
Ireland’s Life Sciences Sector at 'Inflection Point' as Landmark GenAI Playbook Launches
Many life sciences firms are stuck in 'proof-of-AI-concept purgatory', a new industry guide has found. The Generative AI for Life Sciences Playbook 2025, launched today by BioPharmaChem Ireland (BPCI), Connected Health Skillnet with lead authors Brightbeam, provides a roadmap to break the deadlock and help the sector adopt generative AI responsibly and at scale.
Irish Medtech Awards launched as sector reaches €20billion in exports with 50,000 employed
Irish Medtech, the Ibec group that represents the medtech sector, Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland today launched the Irish Medtech Awards 2025, which are held as part of Medtech Rising, 4 December, in The Galmont, Galway.
Case law highlights breaches of employment permit and working time rules in food service sector
The Workplace Relations Commissions annual report recently reported that out of 77 successful prosecutions for employment breaches in 2024 approximately two thirds involved companies in the food services sector with over 80% of these involving breaches of the Employment Permits Acts. There have been several recent decisions by the WRC in which workers have been awarded compensation and back pay for breaches in employment legislation including breaches of the Payment of Wages Act, Organisation of Working Time Act and Employment Permits Acts.
Childcare sector reacts to Budget 2024
Childhood Services Ireland, the Ibec trade association for childcare providers, has today (Tuesday 10th October 2023) cautiously welcomed aspects of the Budget but said that more needs to be done to support childcare services.
WRC decision confirms retail worker who exhausted his entitlement under company sick pay scheme had no right to Statutory Sick Pay
The introduction of Statutory Sick Pay in 2023 has been a challenge for some employers for a variety of reasons, none more so than the requirement for employers to determine whether its company sick pay scheme is more favourable than the Statutory Sick Pay scheme. Under Section 9 of the Sick Leave Act 2022, a company can be regarded as exempt from providing Statutory Sick Pay where its own sick pay scheme is “on the whole more favourable” than the entitlements under Statutory Sick Pay.
Applications for BioPharma and Chemical sector awards open
BioPharmaChem Ireland (BPCI), the Ibec group representing Ireland’s biopharmaceutical and chemical sectors, along with co-hosts Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland, has launched the second annual BioPharmaChem Impact Awards 2026.