Hundreds of healthcare workers to strike today in dispute over pay restoration
Siptu members employed by Section 39 organisations are taking strike action across the country.
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Siptu members employed by Section 39 organisations are taking strike action across the country.
They want the incoming government to implement a Labour Court recommendation issued in 2008 that a pension scheme be put in place for them.
Section 39 organisations are voluntary organisations.
Section 39 organisations are voluntary organisations who have service legal agreements with the HSE.
Some 12,000 Section 39 workers receive dual salary funding between the HSE and voluntary contributions.
Staff who signed contracts for a higher rate of pay can’t be made accept less money while those deals remain in place, the HSE told TDs today.
The Oireachtas Health Committee is seeking to change the rules that currently prevent any other Oireachtas committee from investigating matters that are already being probed by the powerful Public Accounts Committee.