Fórsa has raised the idea of a mid-term review of the Public Service Stability Agreement (PSSA), which currently governs pay and working conditions for most civil servants.

Delegates representing Fórsa’s civil service branches will assemble in Kilkenny next week for the union’s biennial Civil Service Division conference.

Less than half of workers are currently in an occupational or private pension scheme, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

Outstanding issues of concern to so-called ‘new entrants’ – staff who entered the public service in 2011 or after – are set to be reviewed, according to a text agreed by public service unions and management.

Fórsa has expressed disappointment at Ibec’s negative reaction to proposals to expand paid and unpaid parental leave.

Last year had the lowest number of days lost to industrial action since 2012 according to new Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) figures.

Delegates at Fórsa’s Education Conference stood in solidarity with the late Lyra McKee last Wednesday. The journalist was shot dead while working at the scene of a riot in the Creggan area of Derry earlier this month.

Inspections carried out by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) discovered and recouped over €3 million in unpaid wages in Ireland last year, according to the WRC’s annual report.