Union agrees to talks with Health Services Executive

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The IMPACT public sector trade union has agreed to high-level talks with the Health Services Executive (HSE) with the aim of ending the three-week old dispute over a recruitment freeze. However, the union has made it clear that it will continue its industrial action that includes a work-to-rule and overtime ban, until the HSE has made concrete steps to end the freeze. The union also wants the Executive to re-affirms its commitment to 40 other existing agreements working conditions.
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