Fórsa and Siptu representatives attended a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection on Wednesday (29th September) to discuss the growing crisis in local employment services (LES) and jobs clubs.

Fórsa has welcomed the Government’s recent announcement on the treatment of reckonable service for workers on the pandemic unemployment payment (PUP).

Childcare is an essential public service that should be properly funded by the State, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has said.

Fórsa is representing Aer Lingus cabin crew in a Workplace Relations Commission hearing next Monday (4th October).

The living wage has reached €12.90 an hour, well above the official statutory minimum wage of €10.20. That’s because rent increases, transport and energy costs have pushed the measure up by 60 cent in the last year, according to the Living Wage Technical Group.

Talks on a long-term framework for ‘blended working’ in the civil service got underway last Friday (24th September) and intensified this week.

The independent body established to make recommendations on the implementation of a Government commitment to resolve the issue of the so-called ‘Haddington Road hours’ resumed work this month, following the summer break.

Ireland has the fourth lowest rate of employment in the European Union among people with a disability, according to a new study from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).