EU Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services [1] seeks to avoid 'social dumping' by ensuring that a minimum set of rights is guaranteed for workers posted by their employer to work in another country. The basic principle is that the working
On 29 May 2003, the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) held a human resource management conference [1] in Dublin, which looked at examples of how Ireland’s public sector organisations are responding to the challenges posed by the current modernisation and 'change management' agenda, as
On 20 June 2003, Ireland’s 270 public health doctors, represented by the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO), returned to work after a 10-week strike over a demand for concrete proposals from their employers in relation to improved pay, status, and terms and conditions of employment (IE0305203F [1])
In mid-May 2003, Ireland’s 270 public health doctors, represented by the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO), have been out on strike for over a month, over a demand for concrete proposals from their employers on improved pay, status, and terms and conditions of employment, which are deemed to be
In March 2003, a seminar on enterprise 'partnership' (IE0001204F [1]) was organised in Dublin by the National Centre for Partnership and Performance (NCPP), a body whose main task is to promote the wider diffusion of organisational change based on partnership and problem-solving ( IE0104166F [2] and
The issue of a special cost-of-living allowance for workers employed in Dublin, to reflect the capital's higher costs, has been mooted on several occasions in recent years. However, 2003 research by the independent Dublin-based weekly, /Industrial Relations News/ (IRN), concludes that the matter
The current government is a coalition between the majority centristFianna Fail party and the small right-of-centreProgressive Democrats (PDs). This coalition government has been in power since June 1997, and was re-elected at a general election in May 2002. A referendum was held in autumn 2002 on
The Employment Rights Division of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment comprises a number of units including the Labour Inspectorate, the Employment Rights Information Unit and the Legal Services Unit (LSU).
Talks on a new national agreement to replace the three-year tripartite Programme for Prosperity and Fairness [1] (IE0003149F [2]), which expired in December 2002, started in late 2002. Employer and trade union representatives spent a number of weeks attempting to reach an acceptable compromise on
Ireland’s ODEI-Equality Tribunal is an independent quasi-judicial body established in 1999, whose core function is to investigate, and/or mediate, complaints of unlawful discrimination at work (IE0008218N [1]). According to the Equality Tribunal, its new mediation service is, on average, three times