Health & Safety

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has today urged Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll McNeil to engage with healthcare unions in relation to the Special Leave with Pay Scheme for Healthcare Workers with Long COVID, which expired at the end of December. The Scheme supported around 120 workers who...

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has today (11 November) expressed its deep disappointment at the Government’s refusal to formally recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease. The decision was communicated in a letter from Taoiseach Micheál Martin to ICTU General Secretary Owen Reidy. Ireland...

Congress, along with the Government, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA), Ibec, and the CIF will collectively mark Workers’ Memorial Day on Monday April 28 at the national and annual commemorative event to remember people who died, were injured, made ill and bereaved through work-related accidents...

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions today, 3 July 2024, welcomed the launch of the Clear Air on Site Campaign by the Construction Workers Health Trust (CWHT). The purpose of the campaign is the to further promote safe working conditions on construction sites by reducing dust and contaminated air on...

I rish Congress of Trade Unions and the Health and Safety Authority are appealing to more employers to follow the Safety Representative model to foster a workplace safety culture It comes as a ceremony was held in Dublin today to mark Workers’ Memorial Day 459 people died in work-related incidents...