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Live BlogGovernment's recruitment policy for researchers is illegal, lecturers' union says
The Irish Federation of University Teachers says rules that require new roles to be time-limited breaches employee rights.
THE GOVERNMENT’S POLICY on the recruitment of new university researchers is illegal, the trade union representing university lecturers has claimed.
The Irish Federation of University Teachers says the new rules – which say that people appointed to new research roles can only be appointed for specific periods of time – is a breach of the rights of those who gain employment.
The union’s general secretary Mike Jennings told IFUT’s annual conference that the policy meant that as many as 4,000 researchers were being denied any job security, RTÉ News reports.
Not only that, Jennings said, but the practice was in breach of Irish employment law, as well as European Union employment directives.
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