Firms ‘cannot adjust’ agency nurses’ pay

The country’s largest nursing union has warned companies with agency nurses that they have no right to impose the terms of the Haddington Road Agreement on those nurses.

In letters to three companies, Phil Ní Sheaghdha, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation’s (INMO) director of industrial relations, says she wants to “correct the assumption” that the cuts are automatically applicable to agency nurses.

“As the employer of agency nurses you are a private company,” she wrote to TTM Healthcare, CPL Healthcare, and Nurse on Call.