Public service pay will get a boost from this week under the terms of the Building Momentum review. The latest 2% pay adjustment for local authority staff came into effect on Wednesday (1st March).

Fórsa has criticised the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman TD, for failing to legislate to ensure that domestic and sexually based violence leave is paid at the full rate of pay.

Problems with recruitment and retention in some public services, including health services, are part of a wider European trend. That’s according to the European Federation of Public Services Employees.

New research has revealed significant inequalities faced by many Roma in the workplace in Ireland.

The Spanish parliament has approved the creation of a sick leave for women suffering from incapacitating periods, becoming the first country in Europe to do so.