There will be 1,100 new special needs assistant (SNA) posts in the 2022-2023 school year, with SNA allocations in mainstream classes frozen for the third successive year.

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

Fórsa has welcomed the decision not to proceed with the establishment of proposed special education centres.

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 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.

The latest episode of the CAREWELL Conversations podcast looks at how trade unions can represent working family carers and help raise awareness of the challenges they face in the workplace.