Economy

No Going Back: For a Fairer Future - Congress Budget 2022 Priorities

01 Oct, 2021

This is the second set of budgetary recommendations that the Irish Congress of Trade Unions(ICTU) has issued during the Covid-19 pandemic, the most severe global health crisis in living memory. Due to the enormous personal and communal efforts made since March 2020, as well as the unprecedented...

Response to Department of the Taoiseach Draft National Risk Assessment 2021-2022

21 Sep, 2021

We welcome the opportunity to take part in the public consultation on the Draft National Risk Assessment: Overview of Strategic Risks 2021/2022, published by the Department of the Taoiseach on 19 July 2021. This submission sets out our answer to Q.1: Are there other significant risks that you feel...

Congress Friday Briefing: A breath of fresh air

17 Sep, 2021

While schools, much of hospitality and others have already opened, we will have, from Monday 20th, a wider return to workplaces in most sectors. In our Friday briefing on Friday 17th September we will focus on two aspects of Covid-19 infection prevention that are widely misunderstood – mask-wearing...

Invest in our people, our public services, and infrastructure - Budget 2022 priorities

This is the second set of budgetary recommendations that the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has issued during the Covid-19 pandemic, the most severe global health crisis in living memory. Due to the enormous personal and communal efforts made since March 2020, as well as the unprecedented...

Worker Safety 'a top priority' as Covid restrictions eased

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions said today (Aug. 31) that ensuring workers can “return to the workplace safely must be a top priority” for Government plans on the lifting of Covid 19 restrictions and reopening the wider economy. Speaking in response to the publication of the official plan...

Letter from Patricia King, General Secretary to An Taoiseach re Covid-19 Next Phase of Return to Work

25 Aug, 2021

Dear Taoiseach, I refer to the above and my understanding that the Government intends to set out it’s future plan in this regard early next week. In light of the fact that the next meeting of the Stakeholder Group on the National Safety Protocol, under the chairmanship of your department, is...

Response to DETE Public Consultation on the Review of Critical Skills Occupations List and Ineligible Occupations List

07 Aug, 2021

We welcome the invitation to ‘representative bodies, Government Departments, Agencies, and other interested parties’ to take part in the public consultation on the Review of the Critical Skills Occupations List and the Ineligible Occupations List, opened by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and...

Updated Code of Practice on bogus self employment "wholly inadequate" - Patricia King

Responding to the publication of the Government’s updated Code of Practice for Determining Employment or Self-Employment Status, Irish Congress of Trade Unions general secretary Patricia King said: “The amended Code, on its own, is wholly inadequate to tackle the practice of misclassifying employees...

'Negative impact' of bogus self-employment

Northern Ireland Protocol - Congress Statement

Speaking after the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) all-island Executive meeting today, Patricia King General Secretary of the ICTU stated: It seems the UK government are intent on heightening tension around the implementation of the NI/Ireland Protocol. The protocol was an agreement freely...

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