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Women working in low paid jobs in Ireland are likely to earn 14 per cent less than men doing the same work, but one Galway senator is hopeful this situation can begin to be changed.

Galway is expected to benefit from “significant investment” in the development of remote working hubs later this year as part of the Government’s National Remote Working Strategy.

An industry group representing small to medium sized businesses in Ireland is proposing the introduction of a certification process to professionalise the SME sector.

The Government must “step up and support” new parents who are being faced with an “unacceptable choice” between securing childcare and fully returning to work.

Comments by the Health Minister that families will have to secure a “dig out” for getting childcare, shows the Government has a "derisory understanding" of the importance of childcare for working parents.

Education workers held a regional rally at the Department of Education and Skills offices in Cornamaddy, Athlone, on Friday afternoon last as part of the first ever national strike by school secretaries.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has called on Mayo employers to think about how they can make access to job recruitment and workplaces across the county fairer for people with disabilities.

The Minister for Health, Simon Harris, must guarantee that the rollout of the HPV vaccine for boys in their first-year at secondary school will proceed in September, and that the HSE recruitment embargo he has put in place will not delay it.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) launched its new redesigned website this week.

A process, to work towards pay restoration for Section 39 Care Workers, has this week been put in place by the Workplace Relations Commission and SIPTU - a move that has been welcomed by the Galway West Social Democrats.