{"id":330369,"date":"2026-03-05T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330369\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:00:09","slug":"the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle-on-remote-working-unions-clash-with-government-after-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330369\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The genie is out of the bottle on remote working\u2019 \u2013 unions clash with government after new report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Laura Bambrick, who is a spokeswoman for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9b813871-8dc9-4da1-95da-14445d56e737.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Laura Bambrick, who is a spokeswoman for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Government review of the law that gives workers the right to request remote working has been described as \u201cout of touch with reality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An Irish Congress of Trade Unions spokesperson has criticised the review, published today, that concludes that no legislative change is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Bambrick, who is a spokeswoman for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions A Government review of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26022,42,152453,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-330369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-anne-marie-walsh","tag-headlines","tag-ictu","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330369","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=330369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}