SNA allocations for all mainstream classes have been frozen for the next school year, while new and developing schools have received new SNA allocations.

Fórsa and other unions have insisted that workers’ safety cannot be compromised as thousands of people return to workplaces under the Government’s ‘roadmap for reopening society and business’.

Wednesday week (28th June) will see the launch of a series of ‘wellness’ webinars for Fórsa members.

The HSE continues to contact SNAs to discuss allocating staff to students. The number of students linked with an SNA through the HSE process is now just over 600.

Fórsa has asked the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) to develop a business case to determine the number of additional directly-employed inspectors it will need to ensure compliance with the ‘return to work’ safely measures.

Fórsa has urged employers to ensure that line managers give proper support to staff who have to work remotely because of public health concerns.

Increases in average weekly earnings in the public service continued to lag behind the private sector in the first quarter of 2020, according to new figures published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).