Elsewhere, Cormac McQuinn looks at senior civil servants and opens with the observation that the gender gap at higher levels of the Civil Service is closing, with a 10 per cent jump in women holding senior management positions in the past five years: "However, there remains a divide at the very top, with male secretaries general, the heads of departments, still outnumbering female counterparts two to one."
A cost-cutting plan at Aer Lingus received significant media coverage last Thursday, with Fórsa national secretary Hazel Nolan speaking at the top of RTÉ news bulletins on the day, a live interview on RTÉ's News at One and leading front page coverage in Friday's Irish Times. Coverage and analysis continued yesterday by Ellie DOnnelly in the Business Post.
In upcoming Fórsa news, we're about to publish details of the Labour Court's recommendation on the provision of a pension gratuity for school secretaries and caretakers. Members of both branches will receive a special bulletin in the next few minutes, and a press statement will follow later in the morning.
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