Public expenditure minister Michael McGrath has now raised the issue of public service pay and inflation at Cabinet earlier this week, and a formal engagement with his department’s officials is expected to get underway soon.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has again called on the Government to do more to protect workers’ living standards as the World Bank forecasted that energy and other commodity prices, which are currently driving inflation, are likely to remain “historically high” until 2024.

Representatives of and other unions representing local authority staff are due to meet Irish Water management and local authority department next week to continue negotiations on a proposed national water authority.

A former Ryanair pilot in the UK has been successful in a ‘bogus self-employment’ claim against Ryanair at a British employment tribunal. The pilot was working as a contractor pilot, supplied to Ryaniar through McGinley Aviation (MCG).

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