The Labour Court has recommended a pay increase of 2.25% for 5,000 workers at Penneys.

Trade union Mandate has warned of potential strike action at betting firm Paddy Power.

Irish Staff and shopping centres in Ireland have been dealt a blow after the group that owns the Dorothy Perkins-Evans-Miss Selfridge stores said it was closing six shops, including in Cork, Dublin, and Galway.

Ireland has just lost one of its more unique public figures with the passing of Feargal Quinn at the age of 82.

One in 10 retail workers suffers physical abuse, while 44% have been subject to verbal abuse.

Tesco says its Sligo store will remain open during a strike by workers there tomorrow.

LloydsPharmacy workers will strike again today.

The Mandate Trade Union said there remains a level of concern among more than 200 staff at the House of Fraser store in Dundrum Town Centre — the sole outlet in the Republic — despite Sports Direct, the retailer controlled by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, snapping up the department store group’s UK stores from its administrators.

In Arklow, TK Maxx workers represented by the Mandate trade union are on strike today.

A union representing 40,000 retail and bar workers wants its members to be paid a minimum of €15 per hour — more than 50% higher than the national minimum wage.

The protest against South Africa’s apartheid regime was one of the most compelling stories of 1985. Workers were arrested during the strike outside Dunnes on Henry St, Dublin, says Michael Clifford.

As the Irish Congress of Trade Unions pushes for private sector pay rises of 4% in 2017, employers say the figure could be 2.5% or 3% this year.

Thousands of anti-water charge protesters have staged a demonstration in Dublin.

Long-serving Tesco workers are to start an indefinite strike in more than 70 stores tomorrow after talks on changes to their contracts broke down at the Workplace Relations Commission.

Almost 1,000 long-serving Tesco employees have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over management plans to place them on what the workers view as inferior contracts.

Tesco workers say plans by management to defer pay cuts are unlikely to make any difference to the outcome of their ballot on strike action.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Trade unions at Tesco are to ballot amembers in the retail giant for industrial action over what they say is the refusal by the company to give pay increases to 1,000 of its long-serving staff, as well as imposing inferior contracts on the same workers.

Industrial unrest is brewing at Tesco Ireland over management plans to put hundreds of long-serving staff on new contracts and its withholding of a 2% pay increase from them.

Tesco has told the Labour Court that it cannot afford to pay its Irish staff their 2015 bonus as it continues to struggle with its sales levels here.

Close to 1,000 of Tesco’s Irish employees are to be hit with significant pay cuts if the retailer succeeds in moving some of its longest-serving staff to different contracts.

Right2Water protestors have warned the Government the campaign against the charges will continue after tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in the fifth major demonstration against the utility.

Anti-Irish Water campaigners have accused Environment Minister Alan Kelly of morphing into ex-minister Phil Hogan by increasingly “threatening” people who don’t pay their bill.

The Government will set a new minimum wage before the budget.

Tánaiste Joan Burton has described as “absolutely despicable” the treatment of workers at Clerys department store in Dublin who lost their jobs in Friday’s closure.

The Mandate trade union is going to ballot its 4,000 members at Penneys for a 2% pay rise in the coming weeks.

A row has broken out between the Right2Water campaign and supporters of the Non Payment Network over who will lead a new ‘left’ political party.

A two-month stay has been placed on a High Court injunction linked to the closure to the public of a branch of Dunnes Stores in Wexford.

Workers at Dunnes Stores in Gorey, County Wexford, have turned up for work this morning, despite the closure of the retail outlet on Thursday.

Mandate has condemned Dunnes Stores for using staff as pawns in a property dispute over a side entrance.

There are fears for the future of up to 100 workers at Dunnes Stores in Gorey after workers were told the store was to close “immediately”.

Despite ongoing tensions between management and staff which saw a one-day stoppage last month, Dunnes Stores is understood to have signed off on a 3% pay rise for its workers.

The union representing workers at Dunnes Stores has confirmed that it has lodged a claim for a 3% pay increase for its members — and that its national protest march over terms and conditions at the company will take place on June 6.

Dunnes Stores workers who are members of the Mandate trade union are to hold a national day of protest in Dublin in early June.

Workers at Dunnes Stores may escalate their campaign of industrial action in its row with management of the supermarket chain.

The trade union representing some workers in Dunnes Stores has claimed the company has targeted staff who took part in last week’s strikes for dismissal and reduced hours.

The union which co-ordinated the Dunnes Stores strike has welcomed news that collective bargaining legislation could be enacted within months.

Trade unions that are currently leading a nationwide campaign against water charges are to drive plans to set up a left-wing political movement.

The union representing up to 5,000 workers in Dunnes Stores has called on shoppers and other workers in the company not to cross the picket-line when it stages a one-day strike at stores on Easter Thursday.

A trade union strike committee will decide on Tuesday what form of industrial action up to 5,000 staff will take at Dunnes Stores.