Fórsa has taken a claim to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) seeking the abolition of the option that allows civil service employers to pay reduced mileage rates for attendances at training courses.

Fórsa is set to take a claim to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) seeking a reduction in the time spent serving in the Administrative Officer (AO) grade before an AO worker is eligible to be considered for a higher scales uplift.

The next instalment of the Fórsa Skills Academy ‘Lunch and Learn’ series will take place on Friday 30^th June from 1pm – 2pm, focusing on the rise of the far right.

Tributes to Fórsa activist and former NEC member Tom Browne flooded in after the sad news broke last week of his passing, following a long illness.

The Raise the Roof campaign saw up to a thousand people take to the streets of Cork last Saturday (10th of June) supporting a rally calling for immediate changes to the Government’s housing policy.

More than half of employees believe their senior managers are not in tune with the views of their staff, that’s according to the latest Global Work Trend Index by Microsoft.