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Bruton to address IMPACT education conference
Worker protections must stay post-Brexit
Tánaiste responds on pay gap
Ag department ‘ill prepared’ for Brexit
Public rates civil service
Industrial action likely in councils
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St Patrick’s pension protest
Homeless staff want overnight pay
Volunteers sought for union focus group
May Day march for homes
Join the Syria fundraiser
Small grants fund launched
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Worker protections must stay post-Brexit
by Bernard Harbor
 

Ireland must stay in the European Union post-Brexit, and the Government must ensure that workers, consumers and communities continue to benefit from protections set down in European law, according to IMPACT deputy general secretary Kevin Callinan.

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Tánaiste responds on pay gap
by Lughan Deane
 
Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has agreed to talk to IMPACT about its call for gender pay gap reporting laws after the union sought a meeting. The union has also provoked a huge response to its social media campaign, which calls for legislation to make employers publish details of their gender pay gaps.
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Ag department ‘ill prepared’ for Brexit
by Bernard Harbor
 
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is ill-prepared to protect the food and agriculture sector from the effects of Brexit because its staffing was slashed by a third during the economic crisis, according to IMPACT.

Speaking at a trade union seminar on the impact of Brexit in the food industry, the union’s national secretary Andy Pike called for a significant boost in employment in the department to rebuild lost technical capacity and help farmers, food processors and exporters prepare for likely “double regulation” on Irish businesses that move food products across the border, or export into the UK and Northern Ireland.
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Public rates civil service
by Bernard Harbor
 
Public satisfaction with civil servants is at its highest recorded level, according to an independent survey published earlier this month. The Ipsos/MRBI survey found that 83% of those who’d accessed services were satisfied, while 87% were happy with the outcome of their contact with a civil servant. Both figures are significantly up from the last survey, which took place in 2015.
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Industrial action likely in councils
by Bernard Harbor
 
The prospect of industrial action in local authorities has increased after management proposed that half of future vacancies should be filled by external competitions. IMPACT members have already voted overwhelmingly for industrial action over the proposed abolition of the ‘common recruitment pool,’ and national secretary Peter Nolan says he expects the forthcoming Local Government Division conference to trigger that mandate.
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