Strikes called off as HSE restores sick pay scheme

AN aborted plan by Sligo General Hospital to end employees’ automatic entitlement to sick pay would have been replicated in other hospitals if the move had not been strongly resisted, IMPACT has claimed.

All strike notices were suspended yesterday after the Health Service Executive said it would instruct management at the hospital to restore the agreed sick pay scheme.

The vast majority of workers at the hospital had voted in favour of strike action.