Workplace Rights

Conference notes with concern the increasing occurrence of employers using various approaches which can remove employees from their post despite employee performance being satisfactory. Examples include a requirement to apply for your own job, assessment...

Conference instructs the incoming Executive Council of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to adopt a position to ensure that companies supplying products and/or services to affiliates respect their employees entitlement to avail of union representation and...

This Biennial Delegate Conference notes the dramatic changes within the Irish media landscape.In particular conference notes the decline in permanent employment within the newspaper and broadcasting sectors; the increased dependence on casual and freelance...

Inequality is often rife throughout all industries within the North and South of Ireland. It is, however, particularly prevalent within the cultural industries where people are often cast or given work on the basis of nepotism and the old boy network. It is...

The construction sector is still suffering from the collapse of the industry with tens of thousands of building workers having emigrated or finding themselves unemployed. In 2012 the Minister for Finance signed a commencement order for the introduction of...

This conference notes the increase in construction activity and welcomes this growth as it should provide gainful employment for craft workers, general workers and our youth in the form of apprentices. However, the industry is awash with the Revenue...

Conference remains deeply concerned at the impact on domestic seafarers from ferry operators trading in the Irish Sea who recruit crews from outside Ireland and the British Isles to work for hourly rates of pay substantially below the Irish and UK national...

Congress notes with alarm the growth of low hours and zero hours contracts in the Irish Economy, North and South. Approximately 28,000 people are on zero hours contacts in Northern Ireland with widespread underemployment and use short-hours contracts in both...

Conference notes with concern the increasing problem of inequality in society as analysed by the French economist, Thomas Piketty. There is now widespread agreement that liberalisation, particularly of finance, led to massive rises in inequality and had a...