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Women get inspired!
by Bernard Harbor
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Fórsa magazine No.9 out now
by Niall Shanahan
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Funds raised for TENI
by Róisín McKane
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Planning for 2020
by Róisín McKane
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Executives make hay on pay
by Mehak Dugal
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Improved bereavement leave in Tusla
by Hazel Gavigan
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Union subs ceiling raised
by Eoin Ronayne
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New Government should declare emergency over
by Bernard Harbor
 

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.

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Tusla staff get permanent posts
by Hazel Gavigan
 

Almost 60 temporary clerical officers working in the children and family agency Tusla are being transferred onto permanent contracts as part of a stabilisation programme negotiated by Fórsa.

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Section 39 staff to ballot
by Bernard Harbor
 

Fórsa members in a small number of ‘section 39’ agencies are to be balloted for industrial action in the latest phase of the union’s campaign for pay justice in independent organisations that rely on State funding to deliver vital health and care services.

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Time to move on Sláintecare
by Hazel Gavigan
 

Fórsa’s head of health Éamonn Donnelly has urged members to use the general election as an opportunity to push Irish healthcare reform up the political agenda.

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Job evaluation extended to Tusla
by Hazel Gavigan
 

Tusla staff will have access to a job evaluation scheme from the end of this month. The Fórsa-negotiated deal, which comes into effect on 31st January , makes job evaluation available to clerical and administrative grades III to VI.

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Northern council adopts menopause policy
by Róisín McKane
 

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

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Unions demand halt to pension age increase
by Bernard Harbor
 

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.

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Have your say on Fórsa strategy
 

The deadline for members’ submissions to the Fórsa ‘Strategic Organisational Review Team’ (SORT) exercise, is the end of January.

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