HSE job evaluation scheme reopens
by Bernard Harbor
The HSE job evaluation scheme is to reopen this month following negotiations with IMPACT. The scheme was suspended eight years ago on foot of the 2008 economic crash. But IMPACT insisted on talks to reopen the scheme during last year’s negotiations on the Lansdowne Road agreement.
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CRC ballot looms
by Bernard Harbor
Staff at Dublin’s Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) are to ballot for industrial action in an escalation of a row over the closure of their contributory pension scheme. IMPACT, which has been in talks with CRC management since it collapsed the scheme last month, says industrial action looks inevitable unless agreement can be reached on the re-establishment of pension provision equivalent to that in the collapsed scheme.
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SNA boost wins cautious welcome
by Bernard Harbor
IMPACT has welcomed the recent announcement of a 7% increase in the number of special needs assistants (SNAs), but warned that a continued expansion of the service is required over the coming years to meet growing demand and respond to demographic changes.
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ICTU responds to low pay claim
by Lughan Deane
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has responded to an Economic and Social Research Institute report, which said increasing the minimum wage would not help tackle poverty. Congress official Liam Berney reacted to the report, saying the debate on low pay should not be driven by “flawed assumptions and simplistic conjecture, given that low pay is such a serious problem in Ireland.”
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