Nurses protest over failure to implement 37.5-hour week

NURSES at Cavan General Hospital are staging a lunchtime protest today to express their anger at the failure by management to implement the shorter working week.

A 37.5-hour working week, which was agreed following last year’s national nurses’ dispute, has already been introduced in other hospitals nationwide.

Nurses and midwives at Cavan, who are members of the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO), say they are angry and frustrated at the delay in introducing the new working time.