Healthcare workers to begin industrial action later this month over recruitment rules
Forsa and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) said the HSE’s Pay and Numbers Strategy has “imposed a fixed employment ceiling across all health services” and suppressed vacant posts as of December 31 2023.
INMO general secretary Phil Ni Sheaghdha said its members wanted to send a message that “moratoriums and severely restricting the recruitment of patient-facing posts is in breach of many safe staffing agreements between healthcare unions and the HSE”.
“Nurses, midwives and other safety-critical professionals within the public health service must have a greater say in how hospital wards and community care areas are staffed.”
The work-to-rule and other non-cooperation action by union members in the HSE and Section 38 voluntary hospitals begins from Monday March 31.
HSE chief executive Bernard Gloster said that in 2020 there were 120,000 people – or whole-time equivalents – employed in the Irish health service.
This has since risen to 148,000, despite a…
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