Management at the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has written to staff this week to announce that all staff engaged in its ‘New Ways of Working’ programme will see their pay restored to 100% time and pay from 28^th March.

The group of unions representing workers at An Post has backed a new one-year pay settlement which will deliver a pay rise of 2.75% for 2020.

Fórsa and other public service unions have been in official discussions about the establishment of the independent body charged with addressing the additional working time introduced for many non-commercial semi-State workers in 2013.

Staffing in a new Media Commission will need to be adequate to its task of effectively regulating social and other media, according to Fórsa.

Talks at the WRC on behalf of the union’s 110 members at the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority collapsed on Wednesday, which had been convened last week in a bid to resolve a dispute over the lack of consultation on the implementation of a change programme at the State body.

Fórsa has described last week’s announcement, that Aer Lingus was laying-off all cabin crew at Shannon Airport, as devastating for the staff and for the Mid-West region.

Fórsa’s 5,000-strong membership in the aviation industry is among those represented in a new grassroots campaign by aviation workers. 

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has called for an end to forced retirement and a return to a full State retirement pension at age 65. 

Fórsa has raised concerns over sick leave arrangements for staff who suffer from ‘long Covid.’