A newly-established working group on the determination of employment status met this week to discuss false self-employment and potential to improve systems to determine correct employment status for workers.

Fórsa has sought an acceleration of pay restoration for its members in Ryanair due to the increased cost of living. 

Fórsa and other public service unions are expecting contact from the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) after Tánaiste Leo Varadkar told RTÉ that the Government was prepared to make an improved offer in pay talks.

Fórsa has backed the growing calls for domestic violence leave legislation. The union’s national secretary Ashley Connolly said the Covid-19 pandemic had exposed the need for a better response to victims of domestic violence.

Union membership is becoming an increasingly female phenomenon, as there are now more women than men in trade unions. That’s according to the latest findings from the UCD Smurfit business school.

Additional working time introduced in the public service in 2013 will no longer be worked with effect from next Friday (1st July), when hundreds of non-commercial semi-state staff will see their working time restored to pre-austerity levels.

The International Labour Conference (ILC), organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), has recognised occupational health and safety as the fifth fundamental principle and right at work.