The Dune brand of both men's and women's footwear was started in 1992 by Daniel Rubin having previously been a family run supplier to supermarkets. Nowadays Dune has 350 stores worldwide including concessions within many prestige department stores. Although it’s called Dune London most of the shoes are actually made in the Far East and much of that amazing story is covered in Daniel Rubin's new book, “Sole Survivor: How I Built a Global Shoe Brand”.

One of the clear differences between US and European workplaces are the social protections over here. Also Longer maternity leave, more holidays and sick pay as well as more generous workplace pensions. But America is growing faster and its citizens are becoming richer than us. So is it time we diluted some of the generous extras we take for granted here in order to boost incomes? It was one of the themes this week at the EU’s workplace research agency Eurofound in Loughlinstown.

Joining Joe to discuss further was Ivailo Kalfin the Executive Director of Eurofound.

Austin Hughes along with Joe Lynam takes a look at the main business news stories this morning.

Thursday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.

We’re almost at Black Friday and Cyber Monday but will you be buying any gifts directly from Facebook or tiktok this year? Half of us tend to buy on impulse around Christmas but is there any risk in doing so? David Curtin the Chief Executive of the .IE domain name thinks it’s safer to buy directly from a registered domain like dot com or especially dot IE and he explained why to Joe.

Christmas is upon us and for many companies especially retailers will hire short term or seasonal workers in the rush to buy stuff. But employers need to know that even though these workers are only for a few weeks or perhaps months, they still have quite a few obligations to those seasonal employees. Síobhra Rush, Head of the law firm Lewis Silkin here in Dublin

The chain of shops 'Normal' has almost a thousand stores in 10 countries and now it’s opening in the ILAC Centre in Dublin today and Jakob Maarbjerg is the chief executive of Normal.

Wednesday's business news headlines along with Newstalk Business Editor Joe Lynam.