Staff working in non-commercial semi-state organisations will see their pay increase by 1.75% from this month.

Employment affairs minister Regina Doherty has triggered intensive talks between unions and her department, with a view to finding a solution in a long-running dispute involving community employment (CE) supervisors.

Fórsa is urging its members to support the ‘global climate strike,’ an international protest in support of action on climate change that’s planned for Friday 20th September.

Fórsa is to play a lead role in the Irish leg of an international campaign for a four-day working week, which will be launched in Dublin later this month.

Mediator Kieran Mulvey will this week reconvene talks between Ryanair and the Irish Airline Pilots’ Association (Ialpa), a branch of Fórsa, in a dispute over pay, working conditions and related issues.

The Supreme Court has confirmed that employers have a duty to provide ‘reasonable accommodation’ for employees with a disability. 

Fórsa has welcomed a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) adjudication, which found that rental adverts on the property website daft.ie were discriminatory.

Fórsa’s new general secretary has expressed frustration at the Government’s handling of the Public Service Stability Agreement (PSSA), and says there is a risk of the agreement unravelling unless there is urgent action to address its weaknesses.