Fórsa general secretary, Kevin Callinan has responded to Budget 2021, saying a key test of the Budget provisions will be to what extent the additional spending lessens inequality.

Fórsa has called for emergency funding for local authorities after Tuesday’s Budget failed to address serious investment needs, which have arisen as a result of Covid-19. 

Industrial action by local authority vets, over a proposal to transfer them from council employment to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), remains a possibility in an ongoing dispute between the FSAI and local authority management. 

An increase in the national minimum wage of 10 cent an hour has been approved by the Government. The increase comes into effect from 1^st January 2021 and will bring the new minimum wage to €10.20 per hour.

The gender pay gap is closing so slowly in France (0.1% since 2010) that it is on course to take over a thousand years to achieve equality. Within this decade, the pay gap would end in only three countries.

Head of Fórsa’s local government and municipal employees’ divisions, Peter Nolan, has been elected vice-president of the local and regional government (LRG) sector of the European Public Service Union (EPSU) confederation.

Almost half of undocumented migrants work over 40 hours a week in Ireland, while more than a quarter earn below minimum wage, new research reveals.