Trade Union Fórsa has written to the Department of Public Expenditure calling for increased access to remote working for civil service staff due to the impact of the fuel crisis and continued congestion on Irish roads.
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Missed a trick in not calling a #Census1926 bank holiday. I can’t be alone in having got just 4 hours sleep this weekend.
“Government treat fiscal restraint as a principle that applies only when workers ask for something, and govern in the interests of those who shout the loudest.”
Our @ictu.bsky.social general secretary writing in today’s Mail on Sunday on the last weekend’s half-billion euro business handout.
Fanboys of scaling back our ‘Big State’ took one hell of a beating tonight. Or does tax expenditure and yet another multimillion euro corporate welfare handout not count?!?
Forget that. Unlike in other member states, we’re guaranteed a substitute day if a public holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday. What Ireland does need is more annual leave. No improvement on the 20 days entitlement in 30 years.
I might not have the regular Irish Times column that Steen has, but I do have quite a bit more than a few anecdotes to back up what I say. Maria Steen thinks the #genderPayGap is a myth but that is a hopelessly basic and naive take. Here is why.
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IRELAND: Flexibility from employers needed in response to fuel prices pressure – unions www.ictu.ie/news/flexibi...
Why isn’t this front page news??? There’s no gender pay gap! It’s just a lot of hocus pocus and individual choices. Could it be because to reach this conclusion you have to ignore minor details like what and who the GPG is actually measuring?
Despite the EU Commissioner for Energy advising people to work from home and drive less to save fuel , the Tánaiste says the government has no plans to alter its advice around remote working. jrnl.ie/7000419
More than 6,600 employers have not yet signed up to the pensions auto-enrolment scheme, but the vast majority have – 108,894 eligible employers.
768,381 eligible employees have been auto-enrolled.
Savings contributions from employers, employees and the State stood at a combined €158m last week.
More remote working as a partial solution to price hikes at the pumps is supported by trade unions to protect the living standards of many employees. “It would be cost neutral to employers and the Exchequer, and reduce unnecessary car journeys where jobs can be done from home,” says Bambrick.
Facilitating more remote and flexible working arrangements would mean fewer expensive fills at the forecourt for workers, and is a cost-free response to fuel prices pressure by employers and for the Exchequer – our Irish Congress of Trade Unions statement www.ictu.ie/news/flexibi...
The best read on the need for inheritance tax reform, including the campaign for a tenfold increase in the tax-free cap for a favoured niece of a bachelor uncle to €400,000, is this piece.
Inheritance tax should be part of the budget debate again – to hike it thecurrency.news/articles/199...
Think an inheritance tax cut will benefit you and yours?
Not unless you’re one of the small number who receives an inheritance over the current tax-free limits (around 60,000 people over 5yrs):
14,006 in 2024
13,055 in 2023
12,197 in 2022
12,530 in 2021
11,376 in 2020 (Revenue)
This isn’t about compliance with the lowly 3.5% gross salary minimum pension contribution rule. It’s a dry run for a lobbying campaign to keep occupational pension arrangements outside the 7% minimum contribution rule from 2029, 10.5% from 2032 and 14% from 2035. We see you.
If death-in-service benefits are the best thing about your occupational pension, it doesn’t pass the smell test of a ‘high-quality pension plan’. The first and foremost purpose of a pension is to give you a decent income in retirement, it’s not to insure the income of widows and orphans.
63% of workers drive to work. For those working nights and in rural areas, the bus isn’t an option and housing has pushed out the distance to work (16.8km average).
Remote work, compressed hours (longer shifts, shorter week) or a pay rise will help with high prices at the pumps.
Employers won’t be ‘penalised’ as Ireland to miss deadline to introduce pay transparency law. But women workers and the country* will.
*Only six months ago the EU Court of Justice fined Ireland €1.54m for delays in fully introducing new work-life balance rules.
This International Women’s Day, our message is clear:
Reporting on pay costs employers a few hundred euros.
Inequality costs women workers millions.
Trade unions stand firmly behind the Pay Transparency Directive.
We will not go back to pay secrecy.
Equal pay now.
#IWD #EqualPayNow
The @ec.europa.eu has sent a clear message: the pay transparency directive is here to stay. National governments who hedged their bets must now make up for lost time and work hard to ensure they meet the forthcoming transposition deadline
11,000 reasons for new pay transparency rules:
* Know what a job pays before applying.
* No interview questions about earnings history.
* No pay secrecy clauses/ company policy.
* Know the average your boss pays your peers.
Pointless, but predictable, recommendation if the Act underpinning the code of practice isn’t strengthened.
