Fórsa’s Health and Welfare division executive meets today (Wednesday) to decide its next steps in a potential stand-off over the establishment of community healthcare organisations (CHOs).

Fórsa officials will meet senior HSE human resource staff today (Wednesday) to discuss staff matters that may arise from the Scally review into Cervical Check.

The cost of developing high-quality health services free at the point of need could be as high as €1.6 billion, according to a new report by the union-backed Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI).

Fórsa’s Health and Welfare executive committee will today (Wednesday) identify the ‘section 39’ organisations where it will ballot members for industrial action over pay restoration if a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) process, currently underway, doesn’t succeed.

Average wages for young workers in Ireland are over 8% lower than in 2008, according to new research from the union-backed Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI). But average pay for older workers has now surpassed pre-crisis levels.

Government plans to increase the State pension age to 68 will place Ireland’s retirement age among the highest in the world, according to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).

Counsellors and psychotherapists will be the next professions to come under the CORU statutory regulation regime after health minister Simon Harris designated them last month.

In this episode we speak to Dr. Laura Bambrick of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions on the government's proposed pension reform, Fórsa official Andy Pike on progress in the civil service on pay flexibility and more. Presented by Hazel Gavigan.