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The current unemployment rate in the southeast demonstrates the devastation created by job losses in the region in recent years, according to a prominent business association.

IBEC West, the group that represents business in the region, has supported the Corrib gas pipeline application at the An Bord Pleanála oral hearing. The group said approval for the route would facilitate much-needed investment leading to the creation of jobs and improved energy infrastructure in the region.  

The midlands branch of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is pleased to announce details of the launch of their programme of events for 2010/2011. This event will take place in the Tullamore Court Hotel at 6pm on Wednesday September 15.

The IBEC group representing Irish business has just launched its new report, Ireland as a place to do business, setting out that Ireland is once again becoming a favoured location for foreign direct investment (FDI), a fact borne out by the IDA's recent mid-year review.

Strike action by staff at the Mount Carmel Hospital Group in Aut Even in Kilkenny which was due to get under way last Monday, was averted following talks.

IBEC West has announced plans to host a free seminar for businesses about employment disputes and claims called ‘Minimising risk in today’s turbulent business environment’at the Westwood House Hotel in Galway on Thursday next, March 25.

IBEC has launched Gradlink, a programme to provide recent graduates with work experience opportunities in companies across the country.

IBEC wants massive cuts in the numbers employed in the public service but it has nothing to say about the mismanagement and corruption which has brought the Irish banking system to its knees.

IBEC Director John Brennan has expressed concern at the high level of redundancies recorded for January 2009. Statistics compiled by the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment show there were on average 1,677 redundancies nationally each week.

IBEC West has released the preliminary findings of a new survey conducted across the region, which found that 80 per cent of CEOs from the west believe last year's Lisbon Treaty rejection damaged Ireland's international reputation. The survey also found that 100 per cent of the CEOs in the region surveyed believe that EU membership has been important to the success of Irish business.