Community employment supervisors are balloting for industrial action in their ongoing dispute over pensions. Fórsa's Ian McDonnell said there's considerable anger among CE Supervisors concerning their treatment by the government after more than a decade of waiting for a 2008 Labour Court recommendation regarding their pension rights to be implemented.

Meanwhile, ICTU general secretary Patricia King said that workers across Northern Ireland’s public service deserve pay justice following the restoration of power-sharing. The full statement is available here with further comment from ICTU president and chair of NIC-ICTU, Gerry Murphy and ICTU assistant general secretary, Owen Reidy. This follows reports that the UK government has provided a £2 billion injection of financial support to help the restored Northern Executive and Assembly begin working. However, this has been described as “woefully inadequate” by the Stormont finance minister.

In other political news, a new UK Labour-leadership poll puts shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey in the lead with 42 per cent, overtaking shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer who's now in second place on 37 per cent.

Back closer to home, further traffic disruption is expected in Dublin city centre today as farmers continue their protest over issues in the beef sector. Gardaí have warned there may be "increased protest activity" as more than 100 tractors remained parked in and around Merrion Square and St Stephen's Green overnight. 

It's been reported that Nordic nations are not happy about the European Commission’s plans to introduce an EU-wide minimum wage framework. Denmark, Sweden and Finland do not have a minimum wage and fear the measure could undermine their long-established models of salary negotiation between unions and employers, which generally result in higher pay than other EU countries.

And finally, in honour of Lin Manuel Miranda turning 40 today, your Zen is the trailer for his new film In The Heights. The hit Broadway musical screen-adaption will land in cinemas this summer, after Miranda wrote the first draft of the show in his freshman year of college. You may recognise his name from some of my previous Zens as he's also the brains behind the acclaimed musical Hamilton.