In this issue
IMPACT young members' group event - The Cost of Living for Young Workers
Pay deal looks set for success
Progress on IOT fixed-term posts
Temporary health staff need support
Childcare cash and paid leave demanded
IMPACT prepares gender pay gap submission
Also in this issue
Munster SNA branch draws huge audience for Temple Grandin event in Cork
Voluntary body review welcomed
Vacant homes tax must be underpinned in Budget
Workplace fatalities fall - HSA report
School completion campaign ramps up
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NEWS
Pay deal looks set for success
Public Services Committee to meet on 18th September
by Bernard Harbor
 
The new Public Service Stability Agreement (PSSA) looks set to gain majority union support when the ICTU Public Services Committee (PSC) meets on 18th September. Voting strength at the PSC reflects each union’s membership in the public service, and strong support in ballots of IMPACT, Siptu, AHCPS and TEEU members have already virtually guaranteed a majority in favour.
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Progress on IOT fixed-term posts
IMPACT won a commitment to the regularisation of various posts during the recent pay talks.
by Bernard Harbor
 
The Department of Education and Skills has advised institutes of technology to offer permanent contracts to non-teaching fixed-term staff who are currently in “posts which would be considered as permanent positions.”
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Temporary health staff need support
HSE and other employers now hiring permanent clerical and admin staff after a decade of recruitment restrictions
by Bernard Harbor
 
IMPACT is currently in negotiations in a bid to ensure that temporary staff who are unsuccessful in forthcoming interviews for permanent posts keep their current jobs in the health service. And the union is urging temps to join in order to strengthen its hand in the talks.
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Childcare cash and paid leave demanded
IMPACT pre-Budget submission calls for two months’ paid parental leave from 2018
by Bernard Harbor
 
The Government should allocate an extra €125 million in next year’s Budget, and at least €625 million extra over the next five years, to ensure that Ireland meets the OECD average spend on early childhood care and education by 2022, according to IMPACT.

In a costed pre-Budget submission, the union also called for two months’ paid parental leave to be introduced from next year, at an extra cost of €84 million.
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IMPACT prepares gender pay gap submission
Government consultation process one of a number of union efforts to close gender pay gap
by Lughan Deane
 
IMPACT is in the process of preparing its submission for the Government's consultation process on ways to close the gender pay gap in Ireland.

IMPACT's submission follows extensive lobbying to support the Gender Pay Gap Reporting Bill.


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