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Fórsa witnesses hope and tensions in Palestine
by Niall Shanahan
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Four-day week campaign goes west
by Niall Shanahan and Mehak Dugal
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Travellers hide identity at work
by Niall Shanahan
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A gender gap that works for women
by Hazel Gavigan
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Fórsa urges government action on Colombia
by Bernard Harbor
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Unions rail against great pension robbery
by Bernard Harbor
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Tribute paid to Dunnes strikers
by Bernard Harbor
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Tusla agency staff turn temp
by Bernard Harbor
 

Fórsa has reached an agreement that will see 450 agency staff in Tusla moved onto fixed-term contracts.

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HSE concedes to meeting on redundancy bid
by Bernard Harbor
 

The HSE has agreed to meet Fórsa over its chief executive Paul Reid’s public statement on the need for “targeted” voluntary redundancies among “management” posts sometime next year. This comes after the union wrote demanding that the agency conform to public service agreements.

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Clinical governance under the spotlight
by Bernard Harbor
 

The HSE has agreed to Fórsa’s demand for a union-management assessment group to ensure that effective clinical governance in health and social care professions is maintained in new community health structures currently being tested in pilot ‘network learning sites.’

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Public-private pay gap narrows
by Bernard Harbor
 

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. A new report from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) found that, in those years, the pay differential ranged from -3.8% to +7.1%, depending on how it’s measured.

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Big rise in admin and professional agency use
by Bernard Harbor
 

The biggest increases in the HSE’s bill for agency staff, in the year to June 2019, were in the two categories of health and social care professionals (HSCP) and central support, which includes admin.

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Gender-proofed ads help women compete
by Mehak Dugal
 

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.

 

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