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Minister English outlines Government position on reproductive health related leave   Minister of State for Business, Employment and Retail Damien English TD this evening (24 May) addressed the Seanad on the Private Member’s Bill, Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021 which proposed that employees be entitled to leave with pay where the employee has suffered a miscarriage and leave with pay to receive treatment from a registered practitione...

Senator speaks of personal experience of IVF treatment, miscarriage and surrogacy Government commits to paid leave for bereavement, reproductive health treatment about 2 hours ago   The Government has given a commitment to introduce statutory bereavement leave for women experiencing early miscarriage and for couples seeking IVF treatment, but “it needs time”, the Seanad has been told. Minister of State for Enterprise Damien English said it is an equality issue and Minister for Equality Ro...

In this home-based scenario, conventional wisdom dictates that a PVA or PVA-style glue be the order of the day. Wood, you see, is porous and PVA is water-based, so when the PVA is applied, the wood quickly absorbs it, allowing a very strong bond to be established as it dries. But not all PVA glues are the same. Indeed, PVA glue brands can vary wildly depending on what has been added to their chemical makeup so that they set stronger or faster. So, pre-sorting the wheat from the chaff, we’ve t...

Galway’s two local authorities have been asked to brace themselves for busy weekends across the city and county by providing adequate litter and toilet facilities at popular recreation spots.

Cashiered – supermarket staff succeed in Supreme Court - To bring an equal pay claim, an employee has to point to a comparator of the opposite sex doing like work, work rated as...

Q: I’m hearing a lot about remote work this weather. The idea of working from home really suits me but I can’t get my head around the fact that companies might actually offer this on an ongoing basis. Are we not all going to be shunted back into offices again once the vaccine programme has been rolled out? (AC, email ).

Share this article A solicitor has said the new right to disconnect code of practice will actually take rights away from workers. It comes as people now Tánaiste Leo Varadkar signed the new code of practice, which means employees officially have a right to a better work-life balance. The new rules could lead to cases in the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) when there are breaches of the right to disconnect. It means people have a right to not have to work outside of normal hours, they cann...

  The Government has introduced a new code of practice to bolster the right of employees to switch off from work outside normal working hours. Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has presented the move as an effort to strike a better work-life balance, no bad thing in an era of home-working. However, the initiative is but a start down a long road and lawyers say it is open to court challenge. What’s the problem? The constant and ever-growing tide of calls, emails and text messages on work devices le...

Different contracts for the same employer won’t change that. People in a tram in downtown Rome on Monday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (CN) — A worker must have at least 11 hours of rest during a work day even if she is doing work connected to more than one contract for the same employer, Europe’s highest court decided on Wednesday. The European Court of Justice ruling came in a case involving European Union grant money that went to experts at Romania’s University of Economic Studies...