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.

The number of civil service higher clerical officer scale posts will increase this year and next year.

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 (18^th 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.