Members of the Unite trade union working in the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action over job loss concerns.<\/p>\n
The union has accused the NSAI of deciding to seek Government sanction to impose compulsory redundancies contrary to established practice in the public sector.<\/p>\n
Unite also claims that management is proposing to impose staff reassignments without agreement.<\/p>\n
The industrial action will start on Tuesday and will initially involve product reviewers withdrawing from billable work linked to conformity assessments.<\/p>\n
In addition, auditors will only be available to conduct audits for their daily contracted hours inclusive of travel time.<\/p>\n
“Instead of setting standards, the NSAI is flouting standards and undermining industrial relations in the public sector at a crucial juncture,” said Unite regional officer Ed Thompson.<\/p>\n
“They have sought sanction for compulsory redundancies from the Departments of Enterprise and Public Expenditure.<\/p>\n
“I would urge both Departments to refuse sanction for compulsory redundancies, and also to instruct the NSAI to engage meaningfully with Unite on any proposed reassignments,” Mr Thompson said.<\/p>\n
The NSAI has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Unite trade union working in the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) have voted overwhelmingly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-578381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578381","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=578381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}