Injury Grant for members Section 38 Voluntary Employers 

by | Sep 2, 2024 | Health, SIPTU Bulletin

Members within the Section 38 disability providers have raised the fact that some of these employers have stated they will not be applying the Article 109 injury grant due to not receiving the funding to do so. In turn, this was raised by SIPTU at the national level...

Support Grades in Bon Secours Hospital Group secure full implementation of Job Evaluation Scheme

by | Sep 2, 2024 | Divisions, SIPTU Bulletin

Eligible members within Support Grades in the Bon Secours Hospital Group have voted to accept the implementation of Phase IV of the support grade job evaluation scheme. The ballot included staff from across the country and concluded on Friday, 23rd August, with a...

Discussions ongoing regarding the Framework Agreement at the National Ambulance Service

by | Sep 2, 2024 | Ambulance Sector, Health, SIPTU Bulletin

Following SIPTU members’ vote not to accept the Pay Modernisation and Transformation proposals in the National Ambulance Sector last year, talks have been ongoing between the Union and National Ambulance Service management on an alternative proposed framework...

​SIPTU calls on Amnesty to secure the jobs of laid off staff in Ireland 

by | Aug 30, 2024 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Public Administration and Community

SIPTU has called on the Board of Amnesty International Ireland to use every means at its disposal to work to secure the employment of its staff in Ireland who are due to be laid off next month as the human rights organisation struggles with a financial crisis. SIPTU...

FAI must respect its workers’ right to collective bargaining in line with EU policy 

by | Aug 26, 2024 | Latest News, Services

SIPTU has called on the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to respect its workers’ right to collectively bargain on pay and conditions adding that such a majority publicly funded body should be adhering to EU policy on workers’ rights which is soon to become...

Government must support minimum €15 hourly rate for Early Years Educators

by | Aug 20, 2024 | Latest News, Latest News Home, Public Administration and Community

SIPTU Early Years Union is calling for ring-fenced State funding to support a €15 minimum wage rate for educators and a 10% increase to all Employment Regulation Order (ERO) rates in its 2025 Budget Submission, ‘Towards a Professional Wage for Early Years’. SIPTU...