In this issue
Save on travel insurance
Pay body to be established this year
Councils abandon library amalgamations
Health bosses renege on job evaluation
Working women’s image problem
Staff appalled at charity pay abuse
Also in this issue
No consultation on childcare contracts
Union recognition deal achieved
Union shows Solidarity to Nice workers
Minister takes LEEF out of unions’ book
Oberstown agreement reached
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Pay body to be established this year
by Bernard Harbor
 
The Government has announced that a new Public Service Pay Commission (PSPC) will be established later this year, following a short consultation over its role and methodology. But, announcing the move last week, public spending minister Paschal Donohoe stressed that the body would not replace pay negotiations between government and unions.
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Councils abandon library amalgamations
by Bernard Harbor
 
The risk of industrial action in libraries in 13 local authority areas has reduced after local authority managers effectively dropped plans to amalgamate library services in 12 counties. IMPACT hailed the decision as “the best piece of library news for communities and workers in the affected counties since the economic crash.”
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Health bosses renege on job evaluation
by Bernard Harbor
 
IMPACT has opened a ballot of clerical, administrative and management staff in the HSE and voluntary hospitals over management’s failure to meet its commitment to re-open the HSE Job evaluation scheme from June.
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Working women’s image problem
by Lughan Deane
 

Too many images of working women portray them as bad mothers, while images of working men suggest that childcare’s not their concern. Lughan Deane’s been reading Sheryl Sandberg’s bestseller Lean In, and concludes that we have an image problem when it comes to working women.

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Staff appalled at charity pay abuse
by Bernard Harbor
 
MPACT has warned that revelations of irregular pay arrangements for top managers in charities and voluntary organisations will put funding, jobs and vital services at risk unless the Government acts. The union said hard-working and modestly-paid staff in St John of Gods and other charities were concerned that long-term reputational damage was being done to their sector, which plays a unique and irreplaceable role in public service delivery.
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