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IMPACT agrees ‘more efficient’ performance rating system for civil servants
One Cork project launches
Privatisation agenda has no place in reform debate – Nevin Institute
IMPACT submits TTIP statement to Oireachtas committee
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IMPACT to ballot St. James's Hospital staff on car park charges
IMPACT’s IoT branch symposium on mergers in higher education
IMPACT branch AGM season underway
New proposals on Clerys 'very positive' - Congress
Report recommends continuing training opportunities for SNAs
Private sector unions seek pay improvements in 2016
IMPACT welcomes establishment of group to examine retirement age issues
IMPACT highlights difficulties in early years education and social care in submission on working hours
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Trade union grills parties on key election issues (Irish Examiner Saturday 16th January 2016)

NERI blog on Brexit

Labourstart – ending modern slavery

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IMPACT agrees ‘more efficient’ performance rating system for civil servants
Unions negotiate safeguards to protect against any abuse of new rating system
by Niall Shanahan
 
A new system of performance rating for civil servants, replacing the current five-point rating system under the Performance Management Development System (PMDS) will apply this year. The new system will be simplified down to just two points – ‘satisfactory’ or ‘unsatisfactory’.
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One Cork project launches
by Niall Shanahan
 

ONE Cork involves deeper collaboration between unions at workplace and societal levels to organise, campaign, educate, train and communicate with workers and the wider community.

A new initiative - ONE Cork - designed to organise workers, their families and communities to influence, change and create a better future, was formally launched at an event that took place in Cork City Hall last week (Thursday 14th January). 

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Privatisation agenda has no place in reform debate – Nevin Institute
by Lughan Odllum Deane
 
Tom Healy of the Nevin Economic Research Institute.
Tom Healy of the Nevin Economic Research Institute.
Tom Healy of the Nevin Economic Research Institute published a blog post entitled ‘Public Sector Reform’ (8th January). Tom cautions against conflating the idea of reform in the public sector with that of reorganising public bodies according to the logic of private enterprise.
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IMPACT submits TTIP statement to Oireachtas committee
by Niall Shanahan
 
IMPACT submitted a statement this week to the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the committee’s current discussion and planned report on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The union was invited to make a statement by TD Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, who chairs the committee.
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