Today marks the centenary of the legislation that permitted Irish women to vote and stand in parliamentary elections for the first time. It’s also 100 years since the first woman MP was elected to Westminster.
The Fórsa National Executive Committee met for the first time on 18th January. Writing to the union’s branches afterwards, the three Fórsa joint presidents described it as an historic occasion.
The final report on lobbying activity by IMPACT trade union was submitted to the regulator in January. Fórsa has informed the regulator that IMPACT has ceased lobbying. Fórsa will be registered as a new lobbying organisation.
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Pilot studies established to test the feasibility of allowing civil and public servants to convert some of their leave into flexitime are expected to commence this month and conclude in June.
A new ratio of promotions to open recruitment, means an additional 10% of civil service executive officer (EO) posts will be filled by promotion in future.
A government analysis of the number and pay position of public service ‘new entrants’ is to be published by the end of March, following pressure from ICTU’s Public Services Committee.
We’ve received a number of queries about our report on the opportunity for civil servants to opt to revert to pre-Haddington Road hours, which appeared in the last Fórsa News Bulletin (18th January 2018).
Fórsa has been in discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) over an anomaly that has arisen regarding increases in the value of certain allowances in the civil and public services.
Fórsa has written to coastguard management seeking confirmation that the service has enough professional and technical staff to provide a safe and efficient response to emergency incidents in Irish coastal waters.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions latest annual survey into executive pay warns that rising executive pay in the private sector will inevitably lead to a rise in wider inequality.
