Ireland's mothers get paid time off for breastfeeding at work
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Ireland's mothers are entitled to paid time off to breastfeed their babies at work from this week, Health Promotion Minister Sean Power said.
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Midwives in England are to vote on whether to take industrial action over a pay dispute.
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To work or not to work? That was the question. Laurie McCarthy, a Medway mother with two young children and a full-time job, wanted to stay home with the kids, or at least cut back to part time. But she wasn't sure the family could afford it.
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DUBLIN, Ireland  - Ireland has paid the equivalent of &#36;442 million to more than 15,000 soldiers who claim they suffered hearing damage from weapons training, the government announced Friday.
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If Barbara Rose could, she would love to have three to six months off from her full-time job as a critical-care nurse in San Diego to finish her doctoral dissertation. But since she never had children, and never intends to, she knows she won't get the same sort of leave many of her new-mom...
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Women would get the legal right to breastfeed in public, under a new law being proposed by the government.
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A Harvard student must be allowed extra break time during her nine-hour medical licensing exam so she can pump breast milk to feed her 4-month-old daughter, a Massachusetts appeals court judge ruled Wednesday.
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Mothers who breast-feed are less likely to restrict their child&#39;s food intake as the youngster grows up, new research finds. One possible explanation: Breast-feeding mothers
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For new mothers trying to lose those extra pounds, breastfeeding may not be the surefire answer that many women consider it to be, according to two Cincinnati researchers.
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Paying women to have babies has helped Australia boost its birthrate well above that of other developed nations, new figures have shown.
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Ireland has suffered its first homegrown case of the human form of mad cow disease, the government said Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - A recent financial filing from Sandisk in Ireland illustrates the sometimes controversial nature of the corporate tax regime in the country. While Sandisk has joined scores of other companies attracted to Ireland for its low corporate tax rate, the company appears to represent an extreme example of benefiting from the tax environment. In a financial statement filed in Ireland earlier this month, Sandisk Manufacturing, the Irish subsidiary of Sandisk Corp., reported four employees and revenue of $955 million between the period when the company first opened up in Ireland, April 2005, and the end of 2005. Sandisk Corp. had 1,083 employees at the end of 2005 and reported revenue for the year of $2.3 billion. Other U.S. technology companies with offices in Ireland, such as Google and Microsoft, have also had their Irish financial reports scrutinized for generating revenues that appear out of proportion to the number of employees in the country. Google and Microsoft each employ hundreds of workers in the country. "The fact that [Sandisk has] only four people and a billion dollars makes them stick out a bit more," said John Gilsenan, an independent analyst who sometimes consults for IDC Ireland. In the Sandisk example, just four employees in Ireland out of 1,083 around the world appeared to generate nearly half of the company's revenue. The tax regime benefits the Irish government but could become a sore point for other countries. "I certainly don't think that there's any impetus from the Irish government for this to change," said Gilsenan. While the Irish government is likely pleased to earn the tax from companies like Sandisk, the governments where the companies are based might start looking for ways to ensure they can collect their fair share of taxes from the companies, he said. Ireland's low corporate tax rate dates back to the 1950s and its current 12.5 percent rate was set in the 1990s. The tax rate, far lower than in most other countries, has attracted many companies to open operations in Ireland, spurring the current economic boom in the country. In April last year, Sandisk announced plans to transfer its Europe, Middle East and Africa headquarters to Dublin and employ 50 people by the end of this year. In a statement announcing the move, it said it already had 12 people working in Dublin managing supply chain and sales support functions for Sandisk. A Sandisk spokesperson was not available to comment on its financial statement or Dublin operations.
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The NHS cost of maternity care for mothers born outside the UK has risen by Â£200m in a decade, the BBC learns.
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Turning to nannies and day care, many working moms still have mixed feelings about leaving the kids at home.
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It is great to see that the dairy farmers have recently received an increase in milk payouts of more than a billion dollars.
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Irish smokers and drinkers fond of a  local pint had some of the chill taken out of their winter  after a national budget that left tax on alcohol and cigarettes  unchanged and cut duties for small breweries.
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TORONTO - Refrigerating or freezing expressed breast milk, a practice many women use when returning to the workforce after maternity leave, lowers its antioxidant content, a new study has found.