IMPACT members who work for Aer Lingus have voted overwhelmingly (95.6%) to accept a Labour Court-brokered pay deal worth 8.5% over the 39 months from 1st April 2017. IMPACT branches representing cabin crew and middle managers at the airline had recommended acceptance of the package, which will see a 3% pay increase backdated to April […]

IMPACT members in Aer Lingus back 8.5% pay deal

IMPACT says the Government is not going to announce a blanket increase in the public service retirement age, despite a report in the press today (Friday). Along with other unions, IMPACT has been working to resolve the plight of public servants who are forced to retire at age 65, but cannot now access the state […]

Blanket retirement age increase won’t happen

IMPACT is seeking to hire four Industrial Relations Officers and one Lead Organiser. For more information click here.  

IMPACT job opportunities

IMPACT’s Insights series continued this week with a discussion on union efforts to close the gender pay gap. IMPACT’s guest speaker was Senator Ivana Bacik, who has successfully guided legislation on gender pay gap reporting through the Seanad this week. Senator Bacik’s presentation was followed by a discussion with Lughan Deane from IMPACT’s Communications Unit. You can listen […]

IMPACT’s Insights series: Closing the gender pay gap

The border: A Brexit deal bargaining chip or another victim of Brexiteer folly? Symposium will examine future of Northern Ireland’s border post-Brexit IMPACT AND SIPTU will host a joint symposium on Brexit, on Friday 24th November, in the Mount Errigal Hotel, Letterkenny, County Donegal. Focusing on the issue of the border with Northern Ireland, the […]

IMPACT/SIPTU symposium on Brexit

TDs from five parties today spoke up in Dáil Eireann to support IMPACT’s campaign for pension justice for community employment (CE) supervisors. The issue was raised by Fianna Fáil’s spokesperson on public expenditure and reform Dara Calleary, who was backed by Labour, Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats and People Before Profit. IMPACT will participate in […]

CE supervisors gain cross-party support

IMPACT is seeking the restoration of fixed allowances that were cut – along with allowances linked to pay scales – across the public service in 2010. Although allowances linked to pay scales were restored in line with pay awards under the 2015 Landsdowne Road Agreement, many fixed allowances have not been increased. The union has […]

Fixed allowance increases sought

Proposed new governance structures would effectively bring local authority water staff under the wing of a unitary state agency IMPACT and other unions in the water sector are to engage with Government and political parties on the future of water services, amid fears that proposed new governance structures could threaten employment and increase the risk […]

Unions oppose Irish Water plans

Over 170 community employment (CE) supervisors from across the country met in Portlaoise recently to advance the union’s campaign for pension justice. The meeting of IMPACT and Siptu members was called in advance of next month’s meeting of a high level Forum for the community and voluntary sector, and against the backdrop of IMPACT’s political […]

CE supervisors campaign gathers pace

IMPACT’s Central Executive Committee has sought legal opinion on the convoluted employment arrangements in place for many Ryanair pilots. The union has accused company management of using arms-length ‘zero hours’ contracts to undermine employees’ rights and avoid independent trade union representation. The move comes amid a crisis at the airline, which has left tens of […]

Legal view sought on Ryanair