Ingrid Miley

Industry and Employment Correspondent

Documents presented to Fórsa and SIPTU suggest Aer Lingus will impose a pay freeze until 2026 as it continues to lose €1m a day

Aer Lingus proposes cuts to staff pay and conditions

Aer Lingus has proposed significant cuts to the pay, conditions and employer pension contributions of cabin crew and ground handling staff, as the airline struggles to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Business • 03 Jun 21

More than 20% of workers were earning below €12.16 per hour in 2019

Under-25s six times more likely to be in temporary work

People aged under 25 are almost six times more likely to be in temporary work than their older counterparts, according to a new study on decent work by the ESRI and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.

Business • 02 Jun 21

Fórsa says bargaining coverage in Ireland stands at just over 33%, less than half the average among the 14 remaining pre-2004 EU member states

Fórsa critical of low level of collective bargaining

The Government is in danger of breaching international law unless Ireland's processes for collective bargaining are strengthened, the Fórsa trade union has claimed.

Ireland • 31 May 21

CIE recently told an Oireachtas committee that it had accumulated deficits in its two pensions schemes totalling €975 million

CIE commences implementation of pension reforms

CIE has commenced implementation of pension reforms - including increasing the minimum retirement age from 60 to 63 - in a pension scheme for managers and administrative staff estimated to have a deficit of up to €550 million.

Business • 28 May 21

The Forsa Civil Service Division's online conference passed a motion instructing it to safeguard home-working civil servants from 'self-employment and creeping contractualisation'

Call to safeguard home-working civil servants

Civil servants working from home could end up like Deliveroo workers, and lose their pay and conditions of employment, a trade union conference heard today.

Business • 28 May 21

The Work Safely Protocol states that a worker does not have to accept the offer of a vaccination

ISME dissatisfied with non-vaccinated workers' guidance

Small firms' body ISME has accused the Government of exposing employers to potential legal action by failing to give them "robust" guidance on handling situations where employees choose not to be vaccinated.

Coronavirus • 27 May 21

Minister Stephen Donnelly acknowledged that health and social care professionals make up 25% of clinical workers

More manager than care professional recruits in health

The health service recruited more managers and administrators than health and social care professionals in the year to March, according the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly.

Health • 26 May 21

The pandemic has impacted the jobs of almost 1.25 million people, of which 21% say they do not expect to return to their previous job

Unemployment may exceed 390,000 post-pandemic, says SJI

Unemployment could end up exceeding 390,000 when the pandemic ends - a higher rate than at the peak of the last recession, according to the Social Justice Ireland research body.

Business • 24 May 21

IALPA described the current travel restrictions in Ireland as 'disproportionate' (file pic)

Pilots call for rapid antigen tests to reopen aviation

The Irish Airline Pilots' Association has urged the Government to urgently deploy rapid antigen testing for Covid-19 as part of the union's four-point plan to reopen international aviation.

Business • 24 May 21

Aer Lingus: The Shannon cabin crew base had been inefficient and "out of line with market"

Aer Lingus warns of more cost-cutting measures

Aer Lingus has ruled out any prospect of reversing its decision to close its Shannon cabin crew base - and warned of the potential for further cost-cutting measures.

Munster • 21 May 21