Fórsa general secretary Kevin Callinan has called on the Government to open negotiations on a new public service pay agreement by May at the latest.

Members of Fórsa’s Donegal Local Government Branch have been told to limit contact with a county councillor on staff welfare grounds.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) will next week submit written evidence to an Oireachtas committee charged with scrutinising planned new laws that the Government claims would give all workers a right to request remote working arrangements.

Fórsa has welcomed new Government measures to ease the cost of living crisis, but says more needs to be done

Fórsa’s Cork Health and Local Government Branch has paid tribute to former member and IMPACT president Finbarr O'Driscoll, who died last year.

A long-standing dispute between revenue collectors and Wicklow County Council was resolved this week after Fórsa won an agreement acceptable to both parties.

The Government looks set to scrap the requirement for masks to be worn in schools, public offices and on public transport. But mask-wearing will remain compulsory in in healthcare settings.