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Covid-19: Guidance on returning to your workplace

 

 

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Fórsa: Here to support you

 

 

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Union guidance for remote working
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Further relaxation in Covid-19 restrictions
by Bernard Harbor
 

Businesses in most sectors of the economy will be able to trade from Monday (29th June) as the Government announced further relaxations in Covid-19 restrictions when it met last week.

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Fórsa declares return of normal industrial relations
by Bernard Harbor
 

Fórsa’s elected National Executive Committee has advised its branches and officials that significant changes to – or departures from – agreements governing pay and working conditions should again be negotiated through normal industrial relations procedures from Monday 29th June.

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New activation targets would double workloads
by Róisín McKane
 

Fórsa is opposing the unilateral introduction of work targets, which staff say could double current workloads for Department of Employee Assistance and Social Protection employees working in activation roles.

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Social welfare takes pride in LGBTQI+ network
by Róisín McKane
 

Every social welfare employee is currently receiving a daily email from the department’s LGBTQI+ network as part of Pride month. The mailings contain information on diversity resources on the network’s intranet page, and invites workers to take part in digital DEASP Pride events.

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Join our campaign webinar today
by Mehak Dugal
 

Fórsa’s summer series of webinars on campaigning issues kicks off at 1.00pm today (Friday 26th June) with expert speakers discussing ideas for a new people-centred post-coronavirus social and economic model.

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EU talks crucial to Irish recovery
by Niall Shanahan
 

Last Friday’s meeting of the European Council in Brussels fell short of ironing out disagreements over the proposed EU recovery package, designed to restore European economies severely damaged by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

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