Industrial Relations

MEPs on Thursday decided to start talks on a directive that will guarantee all workers in the EU a fair and adequate minimum wage. Parliament endorsed the mandate agreed by the Employment and Social Affairs committee with 443 votes in favour, 192 against and 58 abstentions Negotiations can start as...

When we met in Trinity College, Dublin in July 2019, none of us would have predicted the events we have experienced, across our island, over the last two years. One occurrence which shocked and saddened us all in Congress was the very sudden, sad, untimely, and unexpected passing of our late...

This is the second set of budgetary recommendations that the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has issued during the Covid-19 pandemic, the most severe global health crisis in living memory. Due to the enormous personal and communal efforts made since March 2020, as well as the unprecedented...

Responding to the publication of the Government’s updated Code of Practice for Determining Employment or Self-Employment Status, Irish Congress of Trade Unions general secretary Patricia King said: “The amended Code, on its own, is wholly inadequate to tackle the practice of misclassifying employees...

General Secretary Patricia King's letter to An Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, on the hospitality sector working group, re-opening. Dear Tánaiste, I refer to the recent meeting with both An Taoiseach and yourself together with other Government Ministers regarding the above. As you will recall ICTU, in the...

Opening statement by Dr Laura Bambrick, social policy officer, Irish Congress of Trade Unions to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Chair, Deputies, Senators, On behalf of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, I would like to thank the members of the Committee for the...

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has announced it has withdrawn from the Government established Low Pay Commission. Commenting on the decision, Patricia King, ICTU General Secretary said "we have been engaged in extensive discussion at the Low Pay Commission on proposed changes to the National...