Health recruitment ban should be lifted to combat coronavirus
Calls are being made on the HSE to immediately lift all barriers on recruitment for Health & Social Care Professionals in order to ensure the country’s public health system is adequately prepared for the rapid progress of the Covid-19 virus. The calls are being made by the Fórsa trade…
Community employment supervisors to strike in NW
Community Employment Supervisors in the north west are to go on strike. The issue stems from a 2008 Labour Court Recommendation regarding pension rights that has yet to be implemented 12 years on. Speaking to OceanFM News, Niall Shanahan of FORSA says there seems to be no ‘political will’ to…
Major Forsa conferences in Sligo
More than 500 union delegates will be in Sligo town for the remainder of this week for two major conferences. They are from Forsa, and will be attending the union’s Health and Welfare divisional conference, and its Services and Enterprise divisional conference. Forsa’s Niall Shanahan has been telling Ocean FM…