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Numbers claiming PUP down over 8,500 on last week Updated / Tuesday, 11 May 2021 15:54 Industry and Employment Correspondent The Department of Social Protection has advised employers facing difficulties in re-hiring staff to contact it so that it can "follow up" with the workers concerned. The advice comes as the latest Department figures reveal that the number of people claiming the Pandemic Unemployment Payment this week has dropped to 376,600. This marked a decrease of more than 8,500 over the last seven days. The PUP figures do not include a further 178,000 people recorded on the Live Re...

Major labour shortage in store for shops and hospitality outlets Many skilled staff have quit hospitality, while some shops are struggling to fill positions for reopening Tue, May 11, 2021, 06:10 Immediately prior to the pandemic the hospitality sector was already in the throes of a debilitating staff shortage that threatened to contain the industry’s growth aspirations. Photograph: iStock   As if the pandemic and the impact of restrictions weren’t enough, an additional difficulty for retailers and hospitality outlets lies in the fact that there is likely to soon be a huge staff shorta...

About 3,000 workers on PUP reluctant to return to work Department of Social Protection says vast majority do not involve misclaiming benefit Tue, May 11, 2021, 20:57   The Department of Social Protection has received about 3,000 notifications over the past 14 months from employers about staff who were receiving the pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) being reluctant to return to work. However, it said the vast majority of these cases did not involve mis-claiming of the benefit. The department would encourage employers “to continue to submit details to us where they come across reluctance ...

More than 900,000 receiving income supports in March, CSO figures show Total of about 40 per cent of workforce includes those on live register, PUP or EWSS Mon, May 10, 2021, 11:51   There were just over 900,000 people – about 40 per cent of the Irish workforce – on some form of income support in March. Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures show 905,575 people were on the live register or were benefitting from the pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) or the employment wage subsidy scheme (EWSS) in March This was down from 941,070 in February. While the PUP and the live register are wee...

Donegal's Live Register figure continues to fall, according to the Central Statistics Office. There were 8,632 people signing on at the end of April across Donegal's eight local offices, down 3% on the March figure, and down 18% on the same period last year. The steepest fall was recorded in Dunfanaghy, with 548 people signing on at the end of April, down 29%. There were 26% falls recorded in Dungloe, Donegal Town and Killybegs, with figures of 845, 516 and 449 respectively. A 22% fall was recorded in Ballyshannon with 839 people signing on last month, while Letterkenny recorded a figure of 2...