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New mental health tool
by Hazel Gavigan
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Human rights need union support
by Hazel Gavigan
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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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Fórsa: Here to support you
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Pension commission line-up disappoints
by Bernard Harbor
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Pathway for school secretaries agreed
by Bernard Harbor
 

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is to facilitate detailed discussions on regularising the pay, conditions and pensions of school secretaries and caretakers after Fórsa and the Department of Education and Skills agreed a ‘roadmap’ to progress the changes.

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Union to source face masks for school staff
by Niall Shanahan and Bernard Harbor
 

Fórsa is planning to provide face masks directly to its members working in schools where local management has failed to provide them.

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President’s call on school bullying
by Mehak Dugal
 

School-related violence is a “serious infringement” of the right to education, as well as young peoples’ basic rights to health and wellbeing, according to President Michael D Higgins.

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Time runs short on public service pay
by Niall Shanahan and Bernard Harbor
 

Fórsa and other public service unions have warned that the time available to negotiate and ratify a new public service pay agreement is running short.

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Concern at numbers attending work
by Bernard Harbor
 

Fórsa has raised concerns that more workers than necessary are being required to attend workplaces since the entire country entered level five of the Government’s Covid-19 framework two weeks ago.

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Cost of remote working in frame
by Bernard Harbor and Hazel Gavigan
 

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has renewed calls for legislation to oblige employers to pay remote workers an allowance to cover some of the costs of working from home. ICTU also wants a review of the current €3.20-a-day rate that workers can receive tax-free.

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Virtual conference good to go
by Bernard Harbor
 

Fórsa’s delayed 2020 national delegate conference is set to take place on a fully remote basis on 19th November. Originally planned for last May, the event was interrupted by Covid-related public health restrictions on travel and assembly

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