Unions crank up pressure on public service payAnalysis: Unions want immediate progress on pay rates for staff recruited after 2011Fri Apr 20 2018 - 16:32
Teachers who left ASTI may have to go back to former unionIctu finds TUI did not act in line with rules in accepting 1,070 teachers as new membersFri Apr 20 2018 - 01:53
Union urges flexibility for Civil Service to offer higher payCivil servants call for reversal of additional working hours imposed during crisisThu Apr 19 2018 - 20:22
Epidemic of over-payments to civil servants due to errors in centralised pay systemOne civil servant faces having to repay €14,000, while half of those surveyed report pay problems with systemThu Apr 19 2018 - 19:41
Civil servants want to reduce working week as part of new dealFórsa says issue of public service pensions settled on foot of additional contributionsThu Apr 19 2018 - 15:45
Irish Rail curtailed essential engineering work to fund pay riseDrivers accept process which allows operation of 10-minute Dart serviceWed Apr 18 2018 - 22:38
Consultants on €50m waiting list initiative must be specialistsThe on-going controversy over non-specialist-doctors in specialist positions has intensified in recent daysWed Apr 18 2018 - 10:39
Hospitals may face closure under licensing reformsNew legislation will make licences dependent on consultants completing specialist trainingTue Apr 17 2018 - 01:00
Wait for driving tests could rise to more than a year, union warnsFórsa predicts major surge in demand for tests on foot of new Road Traffic BillFri Apr 13 2018 - 12:44
Employment scheme supervisors may strike over pensions‘We spend our careers helping the disadvantaged... but when we retire, we become disadvantaged ourselves’Fri Apr 13 2018 - 12:32
Warning of industrial action at Aer LingusUnion criticises airline over withdrawal from dispute resolution mechanismThu Apr 12 2018 - 16:23
Psychiatric nurses to consider strike action over payNurses also want pay parity with therapists working in the health serviceThu Apr 12 2018 - 09:55
Government to remove 17,000 from hospital waiting lists under initiativeNumber of patients waiting longer than nine months forecast to fall from 22,500 to 12,500Thu Apr 12 2018 - 01:18
Up to 14,000 carers to get free GP care under initiativeMeasure to be implemented this year subject to legislation – Department of HealthWed Apr 11 2018 - 18:45
Civil servants seek increased ‘divorce leave’Forsa trade union to demand three days’ leave for members separating or divorcingWed Apr 11 2018 - 18:14
Trolley numbers rise with almost 600 patients waiting admissionINMO says hospital overcrowding now out of control with largest number in DublinWed Apr 11 2018 - 14:05
Doctors warn against private practice curbsIMO president predict shortage of specialists if Sláintecare proposals are implementedSun Apr 08 2018 - 16:10
Doctors urged to ‘start charging for everything’ to win new dealMinister says Government wants to spend ‘many millions more’ on general practiceSat Apr 07 2018 - 19:54
‘We have no option but to reform’ healthcare system, says HarrisIMO warns medical profession is ‘under attack’ and doctors are ‘sick of so-called reform’Sat Apr 07 2018 - 19:40
HSE assigning violent patients to GPs without consultation – conference hearsIMO urges HSE to establish separate service for care of violent or aggressive patientsSat Apr 07 2018 - 14:20
One-third of doctors in Irish hospitals suffering burnoutIMO conference told burnout is most likely for young women doctors working long hoursSat Apr 07 2018 - 01:00
Ambulance staff seek lower retirement age of 55Siptu says paramedics will reject any Government move to raise retirement ageFri Apr 06 2018 - 16:24
State faces existential crisis in healthcare, says HSE chiefAny reform plan without cross-party support is doomed to fail, claims Tony O’BrienThu Apr 05 2018 - 21:09
Ten per cent of Irish adults are being prescribed antidepressantsPsychiatrist says antidepressants best used as part of combination treatmentThu Apr 05 2018 - 18:52
Paschal Donohoe under budget pressure on teacher pay ‘red line’Independent Alliance and Fianna Fáil say that pay must be restoredThu Apr 05 2018 - 01:00
TUI to shun religious education opt-outUnion concerned no additional resources provided to schools to implement new rulesWed Apr 04 2018 - 16:26
Bruton tells teachers Government hopes for progress on two-tier payTeachers hold posters calling for ‘equal pay now’ during minister’s speechWed Apr 04 2018 - 13:22
Air Corps cadets on the ground for a year before learning to flyRepresentative body claims manpower and skillset levels falling in Defence ForcesWed Apr 04 2018 - 01:00
Strike action by teachers could trigger pay losses, warns BrutonTeachers’ unions form united front to demand progress on equal payWed Apr 04 2018 - 00:01
TUI backs industrial action campaign if talks fail on pay equalityDelegate tell TUI conference of earning €7,000 per year less than other colleaguesTue Apr 03 2018 - 19:58
Teachers’ unions threaten strike action over unequal payASTI, TUI, INTO ask Government for pledge by next month on ending two-tier salariesTue Apr 03 2018 - 16:46
Teachers disproportionately hit by austerity cuts, says union leaderTeachers threaten to pull political support over two-tier pay systemTue Apr 03 2018 - 13:56
Prospect of further schools strike over two-tier pay systemRow over salary structure that sees teachers recruited since 2011 receive less is threatening to boil over into full disputeTue Apr 03 2018 - 08:41
Loyalty bonus of €22,000 for Aer Corps pilots recommendedPlan to address vacancies in Defence Forces could trigger other pay demandsTue Apr 03 2018 - 01:45
Siptu urges end to pay cuts for public service staff who stay on beyond age 65Union says it will take matter to the Labour CourtMon Apr 02 2018 - 20:57
Half of new teachers don’t see themselves staying in professionMost newly recruited teachers say they would stay on if pay restoration was restoredMon Apr 02 2018 - 11:27
No need for third terminal at Dublin Airport, unions sayIctu submission argues passenger growth can be met by two existing terminalsMon Apr 02 2018 - 05:00
GPs will not get funding restored ‘for nothing’, says VaradkarTaoiseach says Fempi restoration could cost €120m but GPs argue the sector is in crisisMon Apr 02 2018 - 03:45
New GP deal essential if health reforms to go aheadThe Government and the IMO have been engaged in negotiations for over a yearMon Apr 02 2018 - 03:00
Lecturers in Institutes of Technology ballot for industrial actionTUI says workload of academic staff is “completely unsustainable”Fri Mar 30 2018 - 13:04
Only 15% of Civil Service staff believe ‘poor performance’ being tackledSurvey finds staff feel more positive about work and areas over which they had controlWed Mar 28 2018 - 22:12
GPs reject Government proposals to link reversal of fee cuts to contract reformsSimon Harris to brief Cabinet on plans for reforms to general practice this weekSun Mar 25 2018 - 19:30
HSE should have designated facilities for ‘dangerous’ patients, GP conference hearsDoctors reporting physical assaults, verbal abuse and threats to themselves, their staff and patients from other patientsSat Mar 24 2018 - 18:40
GPs reject proposals to link reversal of fee cuts to service improvements and reformsNational Association of GPs says abolition of cuts must not be conditional on additional workSat Mar 24 2018 - 13:50
Talks on GP fees in return for improved services expected soonGPs pressing Government for reversal of cuts imposed following the economic crashFri Mar 23 2018 - 22:39
Governance issues see ‘valued members’ quit GP groupNAGP president says doctors concerned over free trips abroad and use of €168,000 fundFri Mar 23 2018 - 20:05
Row over planned 24/7 consultant roles at National Children’s HospitalIrish Medical Organisation says change of shifts would require national negotiationsFri Mar 23 2018 - 01:00
10,000 patients in HSE facilities attacked, intimidated by other patientsFianna Fáil says publicly-funded hospitals should have to provide data on incidentsFri Mar 23 2018 - 00:00
GPs to urge Government to begin reversing financial cutsGPs seek clarity on healthcare reform programme before agreeing new contractThu Mar 22 2018 - 16:59
Donohoe rules out return to social partnershipMinister for Finance says Government wants new form of engagement with unionsWed Mar 21 2018 - 13:28
