The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has revised its pay advice to private sector unions on foot of sustained high inflation. Last week, it advised unions to seek increases of between 2.5% and 5.5%.

Fórsa members at the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) have halted the latest phase of their industrial action, which had been underway since 10th February.

Fórsa national secretary Katie Morgan has assumed her role as head of the union’s Services and Enterprises Division following her return from maternity leave last month.

Fórsa has welcomed new Government measures to ease the cost of living crisis, but says more needs to be done

A new ‘Office of the Protected Disclosures Commissioner’ is to be established on foot of a proposed strengthening of legal protections for workplace whistleblowers, published this week.

Fórsa general secretary Kevin Callinan has called on the Government to open negotiations on a new public service pay agreement by May at the latest.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) will next week submit written evidence to an Oireachtas committee charged with scrutinising planned new laws that the Government claims would give all workers a right to request remote working arrangements.