Preschool sector facing a major labour crisis in the north west
A preschool provider in Sligo has highlighted the serious labour shortage that the sector is currently battling. Claire Barden runs the ‘Early Montessori Academy and Crèches’ in Ballymote and Collooney. She says the current Covid payments is a factor in a number of those who had worked in…
Workers over 66 not entitled to Covid payments ‘ageist’
A local councillor believes that those over 66, and still working, not being entitled to a number of Covid-19 financial supports is ‘ageist’ and ‘discriminatory’. The comments come from Sinn Fein Leitrim Councillor, Padraig Fallon. He is calling on the government to restructure the likes of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment…