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Tributes paid to Fergus McCabe
by Róisín McKane
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Plight of undocumented workers highlighted
by Mehak Dugal
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Union guidance on remote working
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Update your contact details
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Join Fórsa online
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‘Thousand year’ gender pay gap
by Mehak Dugal
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Fórsa: Here to support you
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Unions respond to Budget
Fórsa leader calls for a new deal for public servants
by Niall Shanahan
 

Fórsa general secretary, Kevin Callinan has responded to Budget 2021, saying a key test of the Budget provisions will be to what extent the additional spending lessens inequality.

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Working time agreement to be lodged
by Niall Shanahan
 

Fórsa and the HSE will lodge an agreement under Section 4 of the Working Time act with the Labour Court. The agreement will be lodged in respect of compensatory rest for health managers (Grade VIII and above), and will ensure a mechanism to facilitate appropriate time off is activated when managers work excess hours.

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Fórsa seeks formal structure for talks with SJOG
by Niall Shanahan
 

Fórsa has sought the establishment of appropriate ‘negotiating machinery’, or a formalised structure for talks between management and all unions representing staff at St John of God (SJOG) community services.

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Industrial action risk at Oberstown campus
by Niall Shanahan
 

Fórsa is preparing for the possibility of industrial action at the Oberstown youth detention centre following the placement of a young female detainee into a new mixed-gender unit.

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Tusla ballot over job evaluation scheme
by Niall Shanahan
 

Fórsa is to ballot clerical and administrative grades (III to VI) in the child and family agency, Tusla, following the agency’s suspension of an agreed job evaluation scheme for these grades, which had only re-opened in January 2020.

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Fórsa to meet HSE about redundancies
by Niall Shanahan
 

Fórsa and other unions will meet with the HSE next Monday (19th October) to discuss the Labour Court recommendation for a fair redundancy package for former staff of the Sisters of Charity.

 

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Minimum wage increases
by Mehak Dugal
 

An increase in the national minimum wage of 10 cent an hour has been approved by the Government. The increase comes into effect from 1st January 2021 and will bring the new minimum wage to €10.20 per hour.

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