Special classes in post-primary schools are to begin reopening later this month after agreement on safety measures was reached between Fórsa, teacher unions and the education department. 

Fórsa will return to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) later this month for further discussions on the implementation of an agreement on the pay, working conditions and pensions of school secretaries and caretakers, which the union secured last October after a decades-long campaign.

Fórsa members and activists are encouraging their colleagues to vote in the union’s ballot on the proposed public service pay agreement, Building Momentum.

Fórsa official Stella Griffin has been nominated to represent the Irish Congress of Trade Unions on the Further and Higher Education Covid-19 Steering Committee.

The equality minister has invited the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to discuss proposals for the introduction of domestic violence leave.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has published a new bullying code of practice, which applies to all employers and employees regardless of where they work.

Irish unions have criticised an attempt by Ireland and eight other EU Governments to gut proposed new EU rules that would strengthen collective bargaining.

The rollout of the auto-enrolment pension scheme is set to be delayed by at least a year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Fórsa has learned.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has written to social protection minister Heather Humphreys urging the elimination of unnecessary bureaucracy faced by bereaved people cancelling public services.