Health & Safety

Ireland is completely out of line with European norms in not requiring employers to continue to pay a worker's wage if sick and unable to work, writes Dr. Laura Bambrick. Journal.ie Aug 16, 2020 IT TOOK A pandemic to shed light on the big failings in how we protect workers against loss of income...

Lisa O'Donoghue, TUI Member and Chairperson of the ICTU Youth Committee has published a blog for Education International on her experience as a teacher of Covid-19 and its impact on education in the future and on teaching as a profession. Lisa's blog can be read below. I sighed as I sat down at my...

Assessing the likely economic impact of 12 weeks of coronavirus lockdown in their quarterly commentary at the end of March, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) suggested unemployment could reach 18 per cent with 350,000 job losses. Unemployment figures for March were released last week...

Webinar report by Paul O'Reilly and David Joyce Members of the Congress Disability Committee attended the recent ILO webinar on disability inclusion in the world of work. Paul O'Reilly from ASTI provides the following report. Facilitated by the International Labour Organisation's Global Business and...