The country’s largest retail union has revealed it has secured more than €20m in pay increases for its members in only the last two years.

Marks & Spencer is to axe 180 jobs with the closure of four stores later this month.

A HIGH-profile sit-in protest by staff at a north Cork 4Home store has been called off after management agreed to meet with worker representatives for showdown talks on Monday.

UP to 2,000 staff at the Irish operations of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) are to take a 10% pay cut while Marks and Spencer is offering employees a pay increase.