Union wins court case over agency staff

Ireland

National agreements negotiated in recent years (Sustaining Progress and Towards 2016) include clauses requiring consultation over any public sector employers' plans to outsource work or use agency staff. The public service union IMPACT has won a Labour Court judgement stating that managers at University College Hospital Galway should have consulted over the proposal to use agency staff for a range of clerical and administrative jobs. The union points out that the agency workers are doing the same job as permanent staff but for less pay. The Court has required the hospital to take immediate steps to take on permanent staff rather than agency workers.
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