Ceremony held to mark Workers Memorial Day 2023
The annual ceremony to remember workers who tragically never returned home or suffered life-changing injuries in the workplace was held in the Garden of Remembrance on April 28th. Workers’ Memorial Day is an important opportunity to advocate for safer workplaces. (Please see video recording of WMD...
Friday 28th April 2023 – Remember the dead, fight like hell for the living
Workers' Memorial Day on April 28th will be marked with a ceremony to be held in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin. Congress representatives will be joined by the HSA, Ibec, CIF, NISO, and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a number of short addresses and the laying of a...
ICTU support the call from the INMO for mandated mask wearing in congregated settings
The ICTU General Secretary, Owen Reidy today supported the call from the INMO for mandated mask wearing in congregated settings. He said "The annual winter health crisis is clearly worse this year due to a number of factors. We are very concerned for our frontline workers in our hospitals and in...
Everything you need to know about sick pay
Dr Laura Bambrick explains what workers need to know about their new legal right to be paid sick pay if they are too unwell to work. Up until New Year’s Day 2023 Irish employment law did not require employers to pay their staff when absent due to illness or injury. Sick pay was treated as a perk of...
'Strive to eliminate deaths in the workplace completely' - Kevin Callinan
Representatives of Congress, the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment Damien English TD, Trade Union Leaders, business and employment groups, and the Health and Safety Authority participated in an International Workers’ Memorial Day event in Dublin on Thursday...
Workers' Memorial Day – Thursday 28th April
Thursday 28th April marks International Workers’ Memorial Day when we remember those who have been killed or seriously injured/made ill in work-related incidents. In Ireland, official figures tell us that 481 people were killed in work-related incidents over a ten-year period from 2012-2021. So far...
