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Here is an interesting job, for anyone in the 18 -21 year old category, currently being offered through jobs.ie.
It is also a warning to those in the off-licence business who may be slow to request ID when selling alcohol or tobacco products.
The job posted reads as follows:
Mystery shopping: 18 – 21 year olds required to visit off-licences in Thurles only
Grass Roots Ireland are currently looking for Mystery shoppers in THURLES only to pose as typical customers for an off licence.
Applicants must be 18 – 21 years of age as we want to see if they are asked for ID when making a purchase.
Mystery shopping is occasional, flexible work; it is not part time employment.
 Grass Roots Ireland If you are interested in receiving more information on this please answer the questions below and we will email you with further information. (Please note that you do not need to upload your C.V)
YOU MUST HAVE EXCELLENT WRTITTEN ENGLISH SKILLS
Location Various
Payment From 13 euro upwards
Category Call-Centre / Customer Service, Miscellaneous, Marketing / Market Research.
Terms Contract, Part-time
Last updated 20/01/2010
Contact Grass Roots Group
Click Here if you wish to apply.
 Dole Queue Latest CSO figures revealing an additional 188 people joined the dole queue in North Tipperary over the month of December. This is a rise of 3% from 6,385 to 6,573.
Over the month of December, Nenagh’s local office saw the largest jump with 96 extra people signing on. The corresponding figure in Roscrea was 55 and in Thurles the number was 37.
North Tipperary has experienced a 189% increase in the number of people under-25 signing on in the last two years. This percentage represents an additional 884 people. Thurles fared the worst over the same time period with an extra 368 joining the dole, in Nenagh the figure was slightly less at 345 and in Roscrea the number was 171.
The Fine Gael TD Deputy Noel Coonan stated:
“Unemployment jumped by a whopping 52% over the last year alone in North Tipperary. An additional 2,239 people signed on between December 2008 and December 2009. These figures are astounding and a very real sign of this Government’s gross incompetence. Nenagh fared with worst with a 57% increase over the same period. There was a 51% increase in Roscrea and 47% rise in Thurles. Unemployment rate has reached a 14 year high and nationally there are 426,700 people signing on the live register, the highest number in history. It’s clear the Government is more interested in saving banks than getting people back to work. The recent Budget is proof of this with a strong absence of any comprehensive jobs strategy.”
Fine Gael believes the Government should immediately introduce a Job Creation and Job Retention package. This should include:
1. An across-the-board cut in the Jobs Tax (employers’ PRSI) to stimulate job creation;
2. An aggressive programme to reduce the high cost of doing business and restore competitiveness;
3. The provision of 30,000 education and training places for the young unemployed through a National Internship Programme and second-chance education;
4. Introducing a Workshare scheme in industry to enable employers to keep more people in employment on a part-time basis;
5. Adopting Fine Gael’s NewERA plan to invest €18 billion in infrastructure by re-tooling the semi-States and making them engines for growth.
The Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment has made ‘poor progression’ in handing out lump sum payments owed to employees, according to Deputy Noel Coonan. In September, the redundancy section was processing claims for June 2009. Today the department is still handling claims for the same month.
 Deputy Noel Coonan “Two months on and the Department is still stuck dealing with claims received in June. I accept there has been an exceptional increase in applications lodged over 2009 but with the Government predicting an extra 750,000 people on the dole next year, the Department should be trying harder than ever to significantly reduce waiting times in preparation for this. People are relying greatly on these payments for financial security and they are entitled to be promptly paid their entitlements,” said the Fine Gael TD.
“The recent Budget did not provide a comprehensive strategy to get people back to work. We do not want to be complaining about the queue of over 42,000 people waiting grimly on their redundancy payments. We want to be able to say that people have faced the worst and our economy is recovering but this Government continues to lead us down a bleak path.
Figures released to me through a parliamentary question show the redundancy section is currently processing rebate applications submitted by post from March 2009 and those filed online from April 2009. This means the waiting time is approximately eight to nine months. The Government is not providing an efficient system at a time when recession is biting and people are in desperate need of what is owed to them,” continued Deputy Coonan.
Since January last, the department have processed 45,201 claims. However, there are 42,591 claims still waiting to be processed.
Deputy Coonan has submitted parliamentary questions to Tanáiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan T.D., asking her to outline the number of people in North Tipperary waiting on redundancy payments but the Minister was unable to provide such figures.
The number of incoming redundancy claims is up 96% on the same period last year.
Thurles Chamber’s annual Christmas Dinner was well attended on Thursday night last, by the majority of business leaders in the town together with staff.
One of this years Special Guest Speakers was Mr Mark Fielding CEO of Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association Ltd (ISME) the Independent Business Organisation.
Speaking to those in attendance Mr Fielding stated:
Madam President Anne Strappe, Honoured Guests, Chamber Members, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends, I stand before you this evening with mixed emotions.
As a Thurles man I am humbled and proud to be asked to speak at the 2009 Thurles Chamber of Commerce Annual Christmas Dinner.
 Mr Mark Fielding CEO ISME I am proud, as the CEO of ISME. that I represent the hopes and aspirations, the successes and failures, the hard working community that account for almost 99% of all businesses in Ireland. I represent YOU, the owner/managers of SMALL and MEDIUM BUSINESS throughout this country. I am humble because I return to the place of my birth.
I was born in Suirside; the town that educated me, from Mother Dolores’ classroom in the Ursuline laundry in Suirside, where as a two and three year old I sat with my classmates from the itinerant community, through the primary schools of the Ursulines and Scoil Ailbe and the secondary school of the Christian Brothers. The altar boys, the boy scouts, the street leagues, Thurles Sarsfields, Thurles Rugby club. Where I served my time in JJ Fielding Ltd. as a messenger boy, store boy, van boy and dog walker. As a bar hop in Tom Brereton’s, as a helper in Jackie Griffins as a footer on Tom Ryan’s bog and as an articled clerk in Chambers Fewer and Halley.
Thurles is where I first experienced the sweet taste of success where I set up my very first business and where I first felt the gloom of business failure and where I learned my first business lessons; when you see an opportunity grab it; never flaunt your success and always secure your supply chain. It was Christmas time and I had been selling penny candles to my friends and classmates in Mother Dolores’ class (actually they were getting a bargain at 2 for a penny) and spending my profits in Mrs Condon’s shop on ice cream and bubble gum and sharing my largess with all the other children on the Square. However it was on my third visit to the suppliers that my world came crashing down in Enron proportions, when Christy Deegan, the sacristan collared me with a jumper full of candles on the steps of the Cathedral. Word had got out and my first venture ended, but not before the window of every tinkers caravan was aglow with holy Christmas candles. It was 1954 and I was 4 years old.
Continue reading Thurles Born Mark Fielding ISME Speaks At Chamber Dinner
The redundancy payments section in the Department of Enterprise is currently only processing employer rebate applications made eight months ago. The latest figures available to end September indicate that the number of redundancy claims awaiting processing stands at 43,250.
 Deputy Noel Coonan Incoming redundancy claims for the first nine months of 2009 is at 60,785 which is an increase of 122% on the same period last year (27,373). This figure of 60,785 exceeds the claims lodged for the full year 2008 (40,607).
A major backlog has occurred in the redundancy payments section due to the unprecedented increase in claims lodged there. While Minister Mary Coughlan has taken steps to deliver more acceptable turnaround processing times, it’s clear that further measures need to be implemented. More staff and more resources need to be pumped into the section to provide a better service.
This information was released in response to a parliamentary question by North Tipperary’s Deputy Mr Noel Coonan.
The Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mr. Calleary outlined the situation to Mr Coonan as follows :
“The average time it takes to process rebate applications from employers filed online is 7 months while claims submitted by post are taking 8 months. The Redundancy Payments Section of my Department is currently processing applications filed online from March ’09 and those submitted by post from February ’09. In respect of lump sum payments paid directly to employees in instances where employers are unable to pay the statutory redundancy entitlements, the Section is processing claims dating from June ’09.”
Continue reading Redundancy Payment Section Processing Eight Month-Old Applications
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