Fórsa is to ballot members for industrial action in an ongoing dispute with the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) over the introduction of a job evaluation system for clerical and admin staff.

More than a decade since the economic crash, public service pay and conditions are still being framed by an “emergency mind-set,” despite Ireland’s return to robust growth, exchequer finances and employment rates, according to Fórsa’s general secretary.

In a big win for local government staff, a revised promotion competition arrangement will soon replace the common recruitment pool.

Derry City and Strabane District Council has become the first Northern Ireland employment of its kind to adopt a menopause policy.

A county council has been ordered to pay a former temporary clerical officer €1,000 for failing to fully engage with her following an occupational health report on her condition.

Welcome to 2020, when it took just three days for the chief executives of FTSE 100 firms to earn more than ordinary UK workers will in the whole of the year, according to a new report from the High Pay Centre. 

Fórsa and other unions have slammed Government plans to further increase the state pension qualifying age to 67 next January and to 68 in 2028.