Number claiming pandemic unemployment payment falls by 3,600More than 477,000 on benefit but Minister welcomes first fall in applications since DecemberMon Feb 15 2021 - 16:32
Driving tests for essential workers cancelled due to cold, claims unionRoad Safety Authority rejects that tests being cancelled ‘arbitrarily’ over low temperaturesMon Feb 15 2021 - 16:28
Prospect of public pay deal ratification boosted after backing by several unionsMedical laboratory scientists whose members carry out Covid testing vote to reject proposalFri Feb 12 2021 - 19:24
Siptu and the INTO row in behind new public pay dealMid-ranking gardaí and military officers say they were excluded from talks on agreementThu Feb 11 2021 - 17:13
Teacher union ASTI votes against new public pay agreementProposed deal fails to resolve pay differences for recently recruited teachers, claims unionWed Feb 10 2021 - 16:40
Virtually all health staff groups seeking compensation for working in pandemicNurses and health group of unions have lodged separate claimsTue Feb 09 2021 - 20:57
Medical card access for people with terminal illnesses to be doubledExpansion covers patients with motor neurone disease, advanced cancer, heart failureTue Feb 09 2021 - 20:43
Public Accounts Committee to seek stall on hiring of Department of Health chiefPAC to ask for analysis of decision to raise salary for civil service role to €292,000Tue Feb 09 2021 - 19:01
Healthcare workers ‘abandoned by State’ after schools closed, committee toldDepartment of Health rules out meeting additional costs of childcare for health staffTue Feb 09 2021 - 13:36
Covid-19: Nurses seek compensation for working during pandemicINMO says health staff in Northern Ireland and in France receiving special paymentsTue Feb 09 2021 - 00:01
Vaccinators will travel to people’s homes if ‘absolutely necessary’ to administer jab, HSE saysGovernment hopeful that construction sector will be able to restart work from March 5thMon Feb 08 2021 - 13:11
State releases €30m to supply new medicinesDeal with pharma sector comes as talks on new drug pricing deal deferred until MayMon Feb 08 2021 - 07:47
HSE to establish 40 vaccination centres across the countryRevised programme to vaccinate the over-70s to begin next weekMon Feb 08 2021 - 03:40
Coalition concern over EU law on minimum wage and worker rightsLabour accuses Varadkar of seeking to ‘hobble’ draft directive on entitlementsSun Feb 07 2021 - 19:06
Up to 40 large vaccination centres to be introduced across the State - HSE chief saysOlder people unable to get to new facilities for Covid-19 jabs ‘will not be left behind’, vows Paul ReidSun Feb 07 2021 - 18:07
First 21,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arriving in State is ‘big day’ , Donnelly saysGPs hope to have all over 85s vaccinated by March 8th under revised planSat Feb 06 2021 - 17:47
Large-scale Covid vaccination clinics to be set up in Dublin, Cork, Galway for over-70sState burning through €5.5bn coronavirus contingency fund faster than anticipated, Ministers toldSat Feb 06 2021 - 08:30
HSE issues new guidelines on order of vaccinations for healthcare workersFrontline healthcare staff will be asked to register online to schedule appointmentFri Feb 05 2021 - 21:11
Student radiographers to press Government for hospital placement payment‘Scandalous’ students making ‘essential contribution’ are not recognised for work – SiptuFri Feb 05 2021 - 13:59
Donnelly confident 70% of GPs can provide Pfizer/Moderna vaccinesCovid-19 vaccine rollout will see ‘tricky end point’ in remote areas - Colm Henry saysFri Feb 05 2021 - 13:49
Legislative proposals for paid domestic violence leave to be brought forward by end of yearMinster for Children Roderic O’Gorman says development of such leave is ‘personal priority’Fri Feb 05 2021 - 13:01
RTÉ staff on more than €40,000 facing pay cutsProposal part of €60m cost-saving plan that also includes voluntary redundanciesWed Feb 03 2021 - 17:45
Taoiseach told Cabinet of enhanced health chief pay but not €80k rise detail - MinisterMcGrath says €292,000 pay for secretary general post ‘commensurate with responsibilities’Tue Feb 02 2021 - 19:38
Officials warned Minister of implications of health post pay hikeFiles show Donnelly wanted secretary general post filled quickly on permanent basisTue Feb 02 2021 - 17:25
HSE pays over €3m to Revenue after self-review reveals liabilityOfficial papers suggest more than half of payment related to payroll taxesMon Feb 01 2021 - 02:40
Concern and political pressure ever-present in shifting vaccine rolloutAnalysis: January’s see-saw experience may mirror rest of year in Ireland and the EUSat Jan 30 2021 - 01:00
Student nurses who had placements shelved ‘rehired via agencies’Nursing union claims ‘this is an incredibly expensive way to provide much-needed staff’Fri Jan 29 2021 - 21:27
Covid-19: HSE to introduce antigen testing in hospitals this weekNew arrangement should facilitate screening of frontline staff for virus, INMO saysFri Jan 29 2021 - 09:41
Clinical placements for student nurses to be further suspended, Siptu saysUnion says it is advised placements likely to be re-introduced on a phased basisThu Jan 28 2021 - 22:46
Pay dispute talks between Government and public health specialists to continueDoctors have been campaigning for public health to become a consultant-led serviceWed Jan 27 2021 - 20:37
Majority of childcare workers struggling to make ends meet, says SiptuSurvey for union says just 22% of early years educators earned more than €12.30 per hourWed Jan 27 2021 - 18:16
Target to have all adults vaccinated by September ‘contingent on deliveries’Adjustments to March plans may be needed following delays with AstraZeneca, says MinisterTue Jan 26 2021 - 20:58
Covid-19 vaccinations for over-70s expected to begin as planned in mid-FebruaryAstraZeneca vaccine hold-up may lead to delays in inoculating older peopleMon Jan 25 2021 - 00:30
Covid-19: Ministers to consider intensifying checks on people quarantining after travelFines for breaches of stay-at-home requirements under considerationMon Jan 25 2021 - 00:01
Biden administration to continue restrictions on travel to US from IrelandFurther 23 deaths and 1,378 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Republic on SundaySun Jan 24 2021 - 22:16
New talks aimed at resolving threatened public health specialists strikeDepartment of Public Expenditure says new public pay deal is ‘final’Wed Jan 20 2021 - 20:27
Garda trainees on frontline ‘receiving 30% of starting salary’GRA says trainees sent out to stations during Covid crisis experiencing financial hardshipWed Jan 20 2021 - 19:01
Nearly 500,000 people over 70 to receive Covid vaccine from their GPFamily doctors, pharmacists welcome new €91m vaccination deal with GovernmentTue Jan 19 2021 - 17:07
Paid contracts for student nurses would ‘undermine training model’, Cabinet toldINMO again urges reintroduction of paid contracts for those on clinical placementTue Jan 19 2021 - 14:50
Cabinet approves €91m plan to bring GPs, pharmacists into vaccine programmeScheme will become key to the widespread vaccination effort, says DonnellyTue Jan 19 2021 - 14:39
Beacon Hospital signs deal with HSE on access to facilities during pandemicPrivate hospital was last to enter agreement to provide additional care to public patientsTue Jan 19 2021 - 13:32
Covid surge: Pausing student nurse training ‘the right thing to do’Training for first, second, third-year students being suspended ‘just for a few weeks’Sun Jan 17 2021 - 15:13
Covid-19: INMO calls for clarity on suspension of student nurse placementsMove aimed at freeing up experienced staff for frontline duties is to be reviewed in FebruarySun Jan 17 2021 - 08:10
Varadkar: €292,000 salary for top health job likely to lead to others seeking parityNew secretary general of Department of Health will be highest paid civil servantFri Jan 15 2021 - 19:52
Employees to have legal right to request home working, says VaradkarTánaiste says Covid-19 pandemic has greatly accelerated change in mindsetsFri Jan 15 2021 - 15:31
State should borrow now to fuel growth post-Covid, says union leaderSiptu boss warns of economic challenge from Brexit, climate change and automation and AIFri Jan 15 2021 - 05:15
New laws will give employees in the State the option to permanently work from homeGovernment to also introduce new measures on right of workers to disconnect from jobFri Jan 15 2021 - 01:48
Remote working could revitalise towns but pose problems for cities, report saysNew survey also claims post-pandemic remote working could lead to country losing jobsFri Jan 15 2021 - 00:01
Staff being asked to go into the workplace unnecessarily, Siptu saysUnion urges all public and private sector employers to facilitate working from homeThu Jan 14 2021 - 19:41
Hospitals across State ordered to treat Covid-19 surge as ‘emergency situation’HSE forecasts more than 2,000 coronavirus patients will require hospitalisation by next MondayThu Jan 14 2021 - 01:36
