The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has recommended that the HSE pay a public health nurse €10,000 for the way it handled a formal complaint against the nurse by the father of a disabled girl.

Unions representing health workers in the North East are meeting HSE management at the Labour Relations Commission today.

IBEC, the group that represents Irish business, has said that tomorrow’s disruption of public services "will not create a single job or make any existing job more secure".

Business group IBEC in a statement released ahead of tomorrow's planned day of protest by public sector unions said that Ireland needs "a plan to protect jobs, not a protest to disrupt jobs".

The country is facing widespread disruption tomorrow as more than 10,000 electricians vow to go on strike.