Fórsa has achieved final confirmation that working time is to be restored to pre-austerity levels for most civil servants from 1st July.

Fórsa general secretary Kevin Callinan has said pay and living standards are the “sole focus” for the union in public service talks, which formally got underway in the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) last week.

A third of workers would move jobs if they were not able to access remote and flexible work, a new national remote working survey has revealed. It also found 33% of workers indicating that they’d change jobs even if it meant a pay cut or fewer promotion opportunities.

Fórsa national secretary Billy Hannigan has retired from the union after more than 36 years as an activist and trade union official.

Fórsa has won an appeal to the civil service arbitration board in relation to the grade of assistant legal advisor (ALA) in the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Fórsa last week presented cheques worth a total of half a million Euro (€500,000) to two organisations providing humanitarian relief to people displaced by Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.

The Men’s Development Network (MDN) has launched a major survey that aims to establish a better understanding of male concepts of masculinity and gender.

Fórsa staff and activists donned their cycle gear last month as they set off on the union’s conference charity cycle in aid of mental health charities.