STAFF who have been told by their employers to move to Britain to keep their IT jobs vowed last night to fight for their rights.

STAFF are owed wages and holiday pay but investors are unlikely to lose out following the closure of the country’s newest private hospital just five months after it opened.

STAFF nurses have been asked not to take up the slack caused by the failure of agency nurses to report for duty, following the introduction yesterday of reduced pay rates for agency staff.

STAFF at one of the Dublin’s best-known hotel chains say they have been removed from the roster for refusing to sign new contracts reducing their wage below the previous state minimum.

STAFF at Ennis General Hospital are devastated for patients over the Health Service Executive’s plan to close the hospital’s high-dependency unit from next month.

STAFF at the International Monetary Fund have recommended lowering the minimum wage and ploughing more resources into Fás.

STAFF at little Zoe Butler’s school have met with psychologists who will help her classmates come to terms with their friend’s sudden and tragic death.

STAFF at a dozen schools for pupils with autism are being offered training to become primary teachers as part of a deal that will see the schools funded by the state.

STAFF at Arnotts are hoping to be told this week what plans Anglo Irish Bank and Ulster Bank have for the store’s future, after Brussels gave the green light for the lenders to take over the debt-ridden retailer.

STAFF at a private fee-paying school who claim they haven’t been paid for six weeks mounted a picket yesterday to demand payment of their wages.

STAFF at a BP oil spill response centre in Louisiana are preparing for a long battle as they try to contain the “blob” of oil from a ruptured Gulf of Mexico well that is fouling coastal waters and beaches.

STAFF at state-aided voluntary bodies face wage cuts of more than €20 million after the Government told the Health Service Executive to press ahead with the cuts, despite the Tánaiste’s assertion they would not be affected.

STAFF at the Bon Secours hospitals in Dublin, Cork, Tralee and Galway are to begin strike action on February 8 over the private health group’s decision to impose pay cuts of up to 5%.

STAFF at the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) will be exempt from the public service pay cut, the Department of Finance has confirmed.

STAFF at the country’s three main airports are to suffer pay cuts of up to 12% as the Dublin Airport Authority tries to reduce its payroll costs by €38 million per year.

STAFF of University College Cork who agreed to give a week’s wages back to help bosses keep jobs are to have the money repaid.

STAFF at a Dublin supermarket were as bubbly as the champagne they uncorked yesterday to toast the lucky customer who bought the €8.5m winning National Lottery ticket from their store.

STAFF at two outlets of the 4Home DIY chain have served strike notice on the company over plans to make them redundant.

STAFF at a 4HOME store in north Cork yesterday began a sit-in after being told they were to lose their jobs from the weekend.

STAFF in the department of Social and Family Affairs took more than 190,000 days of sick leave over the past three years, an average of 12 days per year for each staff member.

STAFF in the Department of Social and Family Affairs have clocked up almost 20,000 uncertified sick days since 2006.

STAFF representatives at Tesco yesterday claimed the supermarket giant had threatened to lock out the workers at a Cork store until June unless they agreed to new terms and conditions.

SENIOR gardaí are warning it will be “extremely difficult” to manage the force if the upsurge in retirements of superintendents continues.

STAFF at one of Cork’s busiest Tesco stores are to be balloted for strike action over company plans to remove established terms and conditions for workers moving to its new premises.

STAFF at Mercy University Hospital (MUH) are steeling themselves for tough negotiations next month after the hospital stepped back from controversial €4 million cost-cutting measures announced last week.

STAFF at Heston Blumenthal’s award-winning restaurant continued to work while infected with the vomiting bug norovirus, it was confirmed yesterday.

STAFF at the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo newspapers have been asked to accept a pay freeze for 2009. Redundancies have not been sought.

STAFF at Independent Newspapers (Ireland) are expected to reluctantly vote in favour of company-wide pay cuts today in order to avoid the threat of job losses as part of the company’s wide-reaching cost-cutting plans.

STAFF at the rescued Cappoquin Chickens plant in west Waterford were yesterday presented with a stark choice: redundancy or a pay cut.

STAFF at Aer Lingus should find out next Wednesday how many staff positions are to be sacrificed in the company’s €100 million cost cutting plan.

STAFF in social welfare offices are struggling to cope with the increased rate of unemployment, leaving dole claimants waiting 12 weeks to have their claims processed.

STAFF at leading Irish real estate agency, Lisney, have been asked by management to take a 10% pay cut as the downturn in the property market continues to bite.

STAFF at four newspapers that closed down without warning last Friday have still not been paid even though they were promised payment yesterday.

STAFF at one of the country’s busiest motor tax offices threatened to strike yesterday after Cork’s county manager refused to sanction payments for a planned relocation.

STAFF at one of Cork’s busiest Dunnes Stores outlets have voted overwhelmingly to strike in a row over alleged workplace bullying.

STAFF at one of Cork’s biggest supermarkets have been balloted for strike action in a row over alleged bullying and harassment by management.

STAFF at the country’s largest local authority office face the prospect of foraging for their own food today, as their caterers are due to go on strike.

STAFF at a number of special schools are being subjected to increased levels of “challenging behaviour”, according to Department of Education inspection reports.

A STAFF member at Cork County Council has been dismissed after the misappropriation of €117,000.

STAFF charged with clearing the six-month backlog in payments for new pension claimants are to start a series of work stoppages from next Tuesday over the way they are being treated by the Government.

STAFF are to take industrial action at one of biggest suppliers to Dunnes Stores.

STAFF at Fáilte Ireland are set to continue with a picket outside offices of the tourism development authority in Dublin today after claiming they were locked out of their workplace yesterday.

STAFF numbers within the Department of Agriculture and Food are currently on a downward trend.

STAFF at the hospital treating two Limerick children badly burned in an arson attack asked their mother for photos to help them identify what her son once looked like.