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Lead News Items

Mulvey given leeway, but must manage ‘leapfrogging’ threat

Intensive efforts by LRC chief executive Kieran Mulvey and his team were continuing this week in a bid to secure agreement in principle from as many public service unions as possible, in order to meet the Government’s target of €300m in payroll savings this year.

Bus Eireann strike highlights intractable cost cut row

The two days of strike action this week have been a chastening experience for both Bus Eireann and the NBRU, regardless of the outcome of this week’s intensive talks aimed at a resolution.

Hearing on Boots plan to link rise to change in scales

A proposed 2% increase for Boots employees, which for longer serving employees is contingent on them moving to a new pay scale, has been referred to the Labour Court.

Audio manufacturer Bose agrees pay deal for 2013

Bose of Ireland, which has been established here for 35 years, has agreed a 15-month pay deal with SIPTU covering around 120 workers at its manufacturing plant in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan.

NEWS FEATURE

Doran sets INMO on pragmatic course, but work to be done
Just days after their annual delegate conference in Letterkenny, at which they unanimously passed a motion to ballot for industrial action in the event the Government imposed pay cuts, the nursing and midwives union, INMO, would appear to have made a significant breakthrough in talks with Kieran Mulvey at the LRC on a revised Croke Park Two agreement.
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NEWS ANALYSIS

Why did the Government not get Mulvey involved from the start?
Given the extent of the breakthrough already achieved by Kieran Mulvey in securing a bargained outcome on €1 billion worth of public service payroll savings, why was the Labour Relations Commission chief executive and his team not asked to head up efforts to secure a deal from the very start?
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NEWS ANALYSIS

Sectoral wage setting laid low by Supreme Court ruling
The striking out of all Registered Employment Agreements by the Supreme Court is likely to lead to a gradual fall in construction and electrical wage rates, and may force yet more new legislation to preserve sectoral wage-setting as a practice.
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EMPLOYMENT LAW

LEGAL FEATURE: Harrassment – lesson from recent cases is keep policies up-to-date

Supreme Court says sectoral wage laws an “abdication of lawmaking power”

NEWS: ‘Irish Ferries’ Act extended for another three years