Global Solidarity Summer School 2022
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Clayton Hotel, Sligo
The Congress Global Solidarity Summer School is taking place on 8 and 9 September 2022 in the Clayton Hotel, Sligo. The fee per delegate is €100/£90 sterling...
Scrap sub-minimum wage rates for young workers
Lower minimum wage rates are outdated, out of line with EU norms and law and grossly unfair to young workers and good employers writes our social policy officer, Dr Laura Bambrick. The minimum hourly wage is the lowest rate of pay an employer can legally pay their workers. It is currently set at €10...
The Housing Crisis - What Can Be Done?
Outside of government circles, there are few people who truly believe that the housing policy is working and that a resolution to the crisis is in sight. And the ranks of true believers will have been further diminished by the recent ESRI report that highlighted a collapse of home ownership levels...
New workers’ right to sick pay a positive legacy of pandemic - ICTU
Responding to the signing of the Sick Leave Bill into law by the President, Irish Congress of Trade Unions general secretary Patricia King said: “This landmark legislation ends our failed voluntary approach to sick pay and will be an enduring positive legacy of the pandemic. “ICTU instigated the...
National Strategy on Domestic Sexual and Gender Based Violence
Today’s launch of the 3rd national strategy on DSGBV- Zero Tolerance - marks a key milestone in the struggle to ensure women’s equality – something that will not be achieved until we end male violence against women. Congress shares the aim of a Zero Tolerance approach and looks forward to continuing...
'Housing Affordability Must be Key Priority' - Raise the Roof Seminar
Ireland can learn valuable and positive lessons on housing from cities such as Vienna, a Raise the Roof seminar heard today (June 21). The Raise the Roof seminar was organised in conjunction with the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alison Gilliland, and hosted in the Mansion House. The seminar heard from a...
The Housing Crisis - National and Regional Meetings
The Raise the Roof Housing campaign has today (May 31) announced plans for a series of regional and national public meetings on the housing crisis, which will take place over the coming weeks. At a launch event in Dublin, the campaign group announced it would be holding the meetings with a view to...
Out-of-pocket expenses for workers are unnecessarily high
High prices and the rising cost of living are topics of conversation in every household the length and breadth of the country. Ireland was already the second most expensive country in the European Union before the ongoing inflation surge. In 2020, when the inflation rate was below 0%, the price of a...
