Flexitime row looms following work return
by Bernard Harbor
 
The union has raised the issue with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER), which has overall responsibility for pay and conditions across the public service.
The union has raised the issue with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER), which has overall responsibility for pay and conditions across the public service.

Fórsa is insisting that flexitime be reinstated for local authority workers who have returned to workplaces and are back on their normal hours and work patterns. Flexitime schemes across the civil and public service were suspended as part of the emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic in March.

 

The union has raised the issue with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER), which has overall responsibility for pay and conditions across the public service. Despite a positive response to the union’s case, DPER has not yet changed its position, even though tens of thousands of staff are back in the workplace and working normal hours.

 

Fórsa’s Local Government executive has referred the matter to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) after it remained unresolved after a meeting of the Local Authority National Council – a forum for negotiating working conditions in the sector – this week.

 

The Local Government Management Agency, which represents council employers, recognised the union’s concerns but said it was subject to the DPER guidance. It said it would raise the matter with DPER again.

 

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