{"id":125429,"date":"2025-11-06T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125429\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:33:09","slug":"fsu-members-in-aib-reject-new-hybrid-working-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125429\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU members in AIB reject new hybrid working principles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of the Financial Services Union (FSU) in AIB have voted overwhelmingly to reject new hybrid working principles proposed by the bank.<\/p>\n

The FSU said it will now refer the issue to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) for conciliation.<\/p>\n

The union added that it remains open to ongoing engagement with AIB.<\/p>\n

In July, AIB said that staff would be required to work in an office-based location for a minimum of three days a week.<\/a><\/p>\n

At the time, the FSU accused the bank of acting unilaterally and described the announcement as regressive, shortsighted and without justification.<\/p>\n

Following negotiations between the two sides, AIB presented the FSU with new proposals including usage of AIB hubs, reviews of pre-existing arrangements, and a commitment to agree any future changed with the union.<\/p>\n

Those proposals have now been rejected in a ballot of FSU members.<\/p>\n

“The FSU want to find a solution that works for staff and the employer,” said General Secretary of the Financial Services Union John O’Connell.<\/p>\n

“We believe it is possible to agree new hybrid working principles that addresses the concerns of both employees and the employer.”<\/p>\n

“We have referred the matter to the WRC but will make ourselves available to meet with AIB management to work towards resolving the issue,” Mr O\u2019Connell said.<\/p>\n

AIB said it engaged extensively with the Financial Services Union and as a result of those discussions it drafted the hybrid working principles.<\/p>\n

“We will continue to engage with our people on our updated hybrid working arrangements, which will come into effect as planned on 1 January, while also continuing to engage with the FSU using our normal industrial relations process,” an AIB spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Financial Services Union (FSU) in AIB have voted overwhelmingly to reject new hybrid working principles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-125429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}