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Ireland’s biggest digital conference for SMEs to take place in Cork on April 7th

Today it has been announced that Ireland’s biggest digital conference for SMEs will take place at City Hall, Cork on April 7, 2016.

The aim of the conference is to provide small and medium business owners and employees with the knowledge to drive their business forward, through the delivery of real and relevant information from experts in the online space.

Attendees will learn from leading brands including Google, Facebook, YouTube and PayPal on how to attract new customers, increase sales and build their profile in a cost effective way.

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Ireland signs up to tackle tax avoidance by multinationals with 30 other OECD countries

Ireland is among 31 OECD countries that have signed up to the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement designed to tackle tax avoidance and evasion by multinationals.

The move follows concerns about how some multinationals move their profits to countries with lower corporation tax rates.

It means these multinationals must now pay tax in the country where the profits are made and they will have to disclose their earnings from each jurisdiction and share it.

The development comes at a time of new transfer pricing reporting standards by the OECD’s Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Sharing.

Article source: Irish Independent

Dublin chosen to launch major EU start-up initiative

Dublin has been chosen to launch Start-up Europe Week at the beginning of February, with a DCU event to be live streamed to the European Commission (EC) to kick off five days of talks that will be simultaneously held across 28 countries.

Aimed at helping start-ups negotiate the regulatory bureaucracy of the EU, the EC set up Start-up Europe to help 350 regions host events all over the union.

Dublin’s tech hub means most eyes will be on the Irish capital, with the launch event on 1 February in demand on the continent. The whole thing runs until 5 February, with a wrap-up event that Friday night.

For more on this article, please visit: Silicon Republic

Many Irish believe openness about mental health is bad for job prospects

Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity, Professor Mark Bell has today claimed that one quarter of us will develop mental or behavioural disorders during our lifetime and for many this can lead to job loss.

Furthermore, almost six out of ten people believe that openness about mental health impacts negatively on job prospects.

This comes ahead of his inaugural lecture entitled ‘Mental Health and Employment in Ireland: Is Equality Law the Solution?’ which he will deliver this evening in the Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College at 6pm.

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More men than women own pensions

New research released by Standard Life indicates that 70% of adults over 55 years of age own a pension. Of this, more men than women own pensions – with 55% of men compared with 46% of women.

The survey of 1,000 respondents reveals that pension ownership has increased sharply from 40% in March 2011 to 50% in January 2016, representing a 25% increase in ownership over the last 5 years.

According to the data, the average personal pension pot (excluding the state pension) is €125,020. This translates to an average income of just €5,625 per annum.

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Poor employee health costs Irish economy €2.4 billion per year

According to new research, poor employee health is one of the most persistent problems effecting productivity, profitability and competitiveness for Irish organisations.

A corporate health service provider, Fusion HR has analysed the health risk factors identified by just under 600 Irish employees through its Health House wellness portal to estimate the cost of poor employee well-being on the Irish economy.

The company then applied productivity impact factors which resulted from a key  study carried out in 2005, at the University of Michigan, on the association of health risks and job productivity of over 28,000 employees, to quantify its findings.

According to the results, €2.4 billion per annum is the cost of lost productivity to the Irish economy due to poor employee well-being. This equates to approximately €1,200 per employee for the approximately 2 million Irish workforce.

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