Workplace Rights

Irish Congress of Trade Unions Retail Sector Group Opening Statement to Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade & Employment July 7, 2021 Presentation by Congress Campaigns Officer Macdara Doyle I would like to thank the Chair and Committee members for the opportunity to appear before you today. I am...

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...

Responding to the launch of the #MakeRemoteWork public awareness campaign by Minister Varadkar, Irish Congress of Trade Unions general secretary Patricia King said: It took a pandemic to fully awaken us to the potential for remote working. While the 15-month working from home ‘experiment’ has been...

As we mark the reopening of the hospitality sector it is important to point out that the Mandate Trade Union and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) alternated as the worker representatives on the Government established Hospitality Group since it was established a number of weeks ago. The role...

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...

Responding to Government approval of the design of the statutory sick pay scheme, Irish Congress of Trade Unions General Secretary Patricia King said: Ireland is one of just a handful of wealthy countries globally that does not guarantee workers paid sick leave from their employer. That is about to...

Congress has responded to media reports today that An Tánaiste Leo Varadkar wants to see a phased return to offices in August rather than September. General Secretary Patricia King said that Congress is currently engaged in a consultation process through the Dept. of the Taoiseach relating to the...

Congress has made a submission to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) Public Consultation on Flexible Working. You can read a copy of the submission here.

ICTU cannot and will not support the Government’s plans to cut the income of some of the lowest income workers in the State. When and how the PUP is withdrawn must be based on concrete evidence and not on baseless and frankly insulting claims that workers ‘do not want to return’ to their jobs”. See...