[…]the 1970s. This Wednesday, 27th November at 12.45pm, the Industrial Relations Bill to strengthen the Joint Labour Committee (JLC) system will be brought before the Seanad by Senator Ged Nash. JLC’s are bargaining bodies in low wage sectors where the workers are insufficiently organised. Currently JLCs set minimum conditions and rates of pay for low paid sectors of the workforce. However, there has been resistance by employers to the establishment of a JLC in the hotel and hospitality industries. In 2016, the EuroStudent survey which received 16,866 valid responses from students in Ireland, highlighted that over three-quarters […]
[…]the 1970s. This Wednesday, 27th November at 12.45pm, the Industrial Relations Bill to strengthen the Joint Labour Committee (JLC) system will be brought before the Seanad by Senator Ged Nash. JLC’s are bargaining bodies in low wage sectors where the workers are insufficiently organised. Currently JLCs set minimum conditions and rates of pay for low paid sectors of the workforce. However, there has been resistance by employers to the establishment of a JLC in the hotel and hospitality industries. In 2016, the EuroStudent survey which received 16,866 valid responses from students in Ireland, highlighted that over three-quarters […]
[…]of public sector savings. The external review of Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) – the new centralised grant awarding agency – found that SUSI was not able to secure the resources it required to fulfil its obligations and that valuable time was wasted by SUSI senior management in pursuit of the necessary resources from the Department of Education and Skills, instead of addressing operational failures in the system. Speaking today, USI President, John Logue, said: “Following the introduction of the new grant process twelve months ago, the Government boasted that it would ‘make it far easier for students applying for […]
[…]Dublin Castle, Dame Street, Dublin 2. The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is launching the USI Student Summit 2014 today (Wednesday, March 19th) at the front square of Dublin Castle. Students will arrive at the front square in a military tank today for photo opportunities ahead of the main event in April, to signify that student entrepreneurs will be ‘invading’ Dublin Castle on April 8th. On the evening of April 8th, student entrepreneurs and Ireland’s finest start-ups and innovative business entrepreneurs will converge on the Print Works Conference Centre, Dublin Castle for the USI Student Summit 2014. At the […]
[…]money up front, meaning they miss out on securing student accommodation. We welcome this agreement today – these two decisions will help level the playing field a bit, but there is a lot more to do. Student accommodation is still much too expensive and is a huge burden on many students. It also needs to be ensured that being able to pay up front does not give one student a preference over another. Accommodation should be allocated in a fair way – be that on need, or on a first-come basis – and not based on how many months rent […]
