Fórsa has raised the non-implementation of an award of two additional days leave for science and arts attendants at the National Museum of Ireland.

The union has tabled the issue at the oversight body, which monitors the implementation of national agreements that impact on staff in non-commercial State bodies.

The oversight body meets today (26th March).

Museum management had previously sought to apply the extra leave, but it was blocked at departmental level on the grounds that the staff were part of the clerical officer agreement, which sets annual leave at a maximum of 26 days.

But the attendants always enjoyed two extra days leave due because they regularly work unsociable hours. This is acknowledged in an existing Civil Service ‘agreed report.’

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