Fórsa’s Education Division yesterday (Wednesday) issued new advice to special needs assistants (SNAs) who are to be temporarily reassigned on foot of the closure of schools.

Fórsa this week published new guidance for health staff and other workers who are working in, or could be asked to work in, environments where there is a higher-than-average risk of contracting the coronavirus.

Fórsa has updated its advice on coronavirus-related work issues for education workers and staff in the wider public service. The advice covers attendance at work (including for pregnant workers and those with health vulnerabilities), salary protections for those self-isolating, temporary staff transfers, childcare and more. Read it HERE.

Flexitime arrangements are to be temporarily suspended across the civil and public service as part of its response to the coronavirus crisis.

Cultural institutions across the country were forced to shut their doors on 12^th March, in one of the earliest restrictions linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. Since then, Fórsa members and others in galleries and museums have been adapting to the new landscape, developing new ways to bring the arts to you.