School secretaries have voted overwhelmingly to accept an historic new package of pay and working conditions, which places them all on public service salary rates after a decades-long campaign for pay equity. 

Fórsa and other public service unions have invoked a review clause in the Building Momentum public service agreement on foot of high and sustained inflation.

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin is to address an event marking 20 years of service by Fórsa members in the school completion programme (SCP) next Wednesday (30th March). The union’s School Completion Programme (SCP) Branch has organised the special symposium.

Just over half of female staff in a large Dublin local authority have had to take time off work because of their periods. But only 12% said they were comfortable enough to tell their line manager the real reason for their work absence.

The State must rapidly strengthen its support for social dialogue between Government, unions, employers, communities and civil society organisations, or risk failing to meet its climate action obligations under Irish law and international agreements, according to Fórsa general secretary Kevin Callinan.

Fórsa added its voice at the National Women’s Council Dublin rally, which called for progress on gender-based violence and other women’s issues this International Women’s Day.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has launched two new statutory codes of practice, which unions will be able to invoke in pay inequality and workplace harassment and sexual harassment cases.

Raising the pension age will save less money than initially thought according to research conducted by the Department of Social Protection (DSP).