Further talks regarding school secretaries pay and conditions are scheduled at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in early December.

A tech company that ‘gender-proofed’ its recruitment adverts saw an 80% increase in the number of women recruited into technical positions, according to a new report on female participation in senior management roles.

The gap between earnings in the public and private sectors narrowed between 2015 and 2018, despite the fact that significant restoration of crisis-era pay cuts took place in that period.

Fórsa general secretary Kevin Callinan has sought a meeting with Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney to discuss the union’s concerns about the escalating violence against social leaders and trade union activists in Colombia.

Fórsa’s Head of Education Andy Pike recently returned from a field trip examining Education Provision in the occupied Palestinian territories, accompanied by school secretary Kathleen O'Doherty, SNAs Annette Murphy and Niamh Jordan and Shelley Healey from the union's Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown branch.