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Monday 30 November 2020
The Labour Court was scathing in its assessment of how the HSE handles such cases.
Even if they’re given one they will refuse it, the party says.
The exact details are still being hammered out.
Unions say half of all teachers under 30 are now on part-time work arrangements.
The Taoiseach has said economic recovery will be a priority in any talks about wage increases.
The GRA said the withdrawal of the allowance would essentially be a pay cut for recruits.
There was also a similar shortfall last year, with just €9 million of the projected €15 million in savings achieved.
The Technical Group will put forward a Bill today that would update the current process.
The health minister also cast doubts on the savings targets.
The INMO says the savings are being sought – the HSE says this is incorrect.
As part of the three-year Haddington Road Agreement, salaries above €65,000 that were cut were due to be restored when it expired.
Alan Shatter won’t be there because he wasn’t invited, but we were so here are some of the issues we’ll be keeping an eye on.
John MacGabhainn’s also calling for the TUI and the ASTI to merge, in order to deal in a more unified way with threats and challenges in the sector.
The Public Expenditure Minister also said that there could be room in Budget 2015 for tax cuts.
Quarterly bulletin finds that drop in unemployment is ‘clearest indicator’ of improving economic fortunes.
A number of ministers explained that their advisers had previously been on much higher pay scales when working in the private sector prior to their appointment in the respective departments.
In a second vote on the Government pay deal, union leaders have urged secondary teachers to reject it.
The INMO says that Irish nurses were “allowed emigrate” rather than being trained.
The ASTI warns this will lead to a ‘serious escalation’ of the current industrial dispute in schools.
Nearly 50 posts have been identified as being over the official quota and could be targeted for redundancy, but the ASTI says it will take action if members are hit.
The Central Executive Committee decided today that the Haddington Road proposals should be put to a members’ vote.
However, the Education Minister said that the “terms and conditions” of the guarantee are not under his control.
The discussions have come about as a result of informal talks that took place between the parties last week.
Mick O’Reilly of the DCTU said that politics of austerity amounted to a “war on working people’ with the best defence in that war “unflinching solidarity”.
The ASTI General Secretary Pat King said they won’t be accepting any further cuts.
Pat King has said the planned action will affect students only “marginally”. Teachers will withdraw from out-of-hours duties including parent and staff meetings from tomorrow week.
The two Labour ministers’ comments come in the wake of ASTI members rejecting the public sector pay deal.
The union says that it will withdraw from school meetings, in-service training and parent-teacher meetings.
The majority of members in the Irish Federation of University Teachers approved the revised public sector pay agreement.
In a ballot on Friday, teachers rejected the Haddington Road public sector pay deal and voted in favour of industrial action.
The TUI’s General Secretary said members had accepted the public sector pay deal reluctantly, but that in this case it was the “lesser of two evils”.
The union representing 17,000 secondary teachers voted by way of a 63 per cent majority to reject the deal.
The cuts have resulted in an immediate reduction in transport services for users, affecting 44 users in County Wicklow.
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The union represents workers in the Civil Service, An Post, FÁS and other organisations.
As are the country’s 292,000 civil servants who are experiencing the first effects of the Haddington Road Agreement in their pay cheques today.
The final report of the public sector pay deal’s implementation body has outlined the savings it achieved.
The Association of Higher and Civil Public Servants has voted 64 to 36 per cent to back the agreement.
The Irish Medical Organisation and the Civil and Public Service Union become the latest to accept the pay plan.
The teachers’ unions both decided today to recommend a ballot of their members. The move comes after a number of unions accepted the deal.
THE DEATH OF David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader, was announced this morning.
The on-screen character for which he was most famous (voiced by James Earl Jones) is often hailed as the most villainous of all movie bad guys.
But for the day that’s in it, we’re wondering if that’s a fair assessment. Today we’re asking: Who is the greatest movie villain of all time?
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