Health job evaluation scheme opens
Bernard Harbor
The job evaluation scheme for health service clerical, administrative and management staff opened last Thursday (1st September) following IMPACT members’ huge endorsement of industrial action over the issue last month. The Department of Health sanctioned the reactivation of the scheme following intensive talks between the union and the HSE in the wake of the ballot.
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Workplace sexism? It’s child’s play
Lughan Deane
Women are over-represented in the lowest paid sectors of the workforce and this copper-fastens the gender pay gap. LUGHAN DEANE argues that, with one in ten parents buying their children toys that encourage them down a specific career path, the choices that guide women into the lowest-paid jobs are not entirely free.
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Unions demand accurate pay comparisons
Bernard Harbor
IMPACT has insisted that future pay comparisons between the public and private sector must be based on a fair assessment of individual public service grades and comparable private sector workers, not “absurd crude averages” of pay across the two sectors.
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Paid paternity leave from this month
Lughan Deane
Fathers are now entitled to paid paternity leave of two weeks. The new provisions apply to births or adoptions that took place after the 1st of September. The leave can be taken any time within six months of the birth or adoption, but you must provide four weeks’ written notice of intention to take the leave.
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Oberstown industrial action deferred
Niall Shanahan
IMPACT has accepted an invitation to attend a meeting with Oberstown youth detention centre management in the Workplace Relations Commission today (5th September). The meeting will seek to address outstanding issues in the ongoing industrial dispute over poor safety measures and assaults on the campus.
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