A few days only before social partners' meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss the future national wage agreement, the SIPTU union officially confirmed that it would sign no further agreement unless the abuse of agency workers is ended and the measures planned in the national pact for growth and employment, "Towards 2016" (see our article No. 06855) are enforced. (Ref. 080120)
In its fight against the abusive exploitation of agency workers, the SIPTU union repeated that if measures ensuring the protection of this category of vulnerable workers are not introduced, there will be no further agreement. Whereas a meeting between social partners and the government is planned for February 15 to talk about the future national wage agreement, the union’s General President, Jack O’Connor, officially declared that he would sign no agreement if agency workers’ rights are not res
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