Ryanair has issued a memo to all its Irish-based cabin crew outlining payroll and income arrangements for April, following extensive discussions with Fórsa.

Cultural institutions across the country were forced to shut their doors on 12^th March, in one of the earliest restrictions linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. Since then, Fórsa members and others in galleries and museums have been adapting to the new cultural landscape, and developing new ways to bring the arts to you in your home. Here’s a look at what’s on offer.

New flexibilities introduced on foot of the Covid-19 emergency will give non-commercial semi-state managers the option to cancel or postpone individual ‘shorter working year’ arrangements, but only with the consent of the worker involved.

Fórsa this week published new guidance for health staff and other workers who are working in, or could be asked to work in, environments where there is a higher-than-average risk of contracting the coronavirus.

Flexitime arrangements are to be temporarily suspended across the civil and public service as part of its response to the coronavirus crisis.