Workplace Rights

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has urged Government to end pay discrimination, and called for Oireachtas members to back Senator Nessa Cosgrove’s National Minimum Wage (Inclusion of Young persons, Apprentices and Interns) Bill 2025. The bill seeks to bring the minimum wage for workers aged under...

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has written to the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, urging him to take action on the increasing violence and aggression against minorities. Recent months have seen a spate of violent assaults and hate crimes against minorities across Ireland, and...

Congress understands the Minister for Social Protection intends to sign secondary legislation into law to protect the integrity of the new pension auto-enrolment scheme under the powers given to him by the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act. Welcoming the commitment to set out in...

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...

Any ambiguity on the legality of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive has been put beyond doubt, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions said today (11 November), following a Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling. In its ruling announced today, the Court upheld in full all articles...

Commenting on AIB's unilateral decision to require workers in the office three days a week, Congress General Secretary Owen Reidy said: "When it comes to their job, every worker wants to have a good work-life balance and trust with their employer. AIB's move undermines both. “By imposing this...