THE Department of Health has spent a massive €102 million on a series of published and unpublished reform reports over the past decade.

CONTRACT workers employed by the state must get the same salaries and pension schemes as their counterparts in full-time employment, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

MORE than 150 staff at Hewlett Packard have ended two weeks of industrial action after prolonged negotiations finally secured them the pay increases which they had been demanding.

SIPTU has welcomed the intervention of the Labour Court in the dispute at Tara Mines in Co Meath.