The Indo reports this morning that the Department of Health has been ordered to pay a senior official, Nicola Matthews, €40,000 in compensation after discriminating against her on age grounds concerning a job application for a promotion. Nicola was represented in the case at the WRC by Fórsa.

Elsewhere, Laura Slattery's business column in Saturday's IT crunches the numbers on the UK employment tribunal case that successfully argued Uber drivers were not self-employed. The same column lists those in favour of a four day week, including Fórsa's participation in the Irish campaign.

Meanwhile, The Currency reports that the High Court has had its say on the closure of Fórsa's 'youth wing' in 2018 (paywalled), while it's reported in the IT that ASTI has received a payment from the TUI as a settlement to a dispute over “poaching” of members, and RTÉ might have to go to an industrial relations tribunal if staff do not vote for a new pay cut. 

In local authority news, The Irish Times reports that local authorities in Dublin have been accused of wasting taxpayers’ money by leasing social housing units from the private sector, while the Business Post reports that Irish Water is in a row with unions over the use of private contractors, and the Government has refused to fund the whitewater rafting project in Dublin.

Finally, here's what it says in this morning's papers, and the front pages at a glance.

Zen

Your Zen this morning was prompted by a documentary I watched at the weekend about the new sounds of Britain's (post) industrial cities in the late 70s and early 80s. There is much to love about what came out of Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Birmingham and parts of London and Essex (I'm looking at you Basildon) at that time. The independent spirit was strong, and Coventry gave us 2 Tone. This short-lived Ska movement inspired a generation, and in the Gaeltacht town of Carna, Connemara in the summer of 1980 you could see it in some of the dance moves executed in the nightly céilí sessions by a clutch of the lads from CBS Synge Street. I was one of them.

Have a good week, stay safe. The clocks go forward this weekend, your days will get brighter and longer.