Fórsa wants return to pre-crisis working hours for its members

The largest public sector trade union in the country is to seek a return to the working hours for civil servants that were in place before the financial crisis.

Fórsa want a mid-term review of the Public Service Stability Agreement to review the extra working hours brought in under the 2013 Haddington Road agreement. Fórsa senior general secretary designate Kevin Callinan told the union’s civil service conference in Kilkenny that it disputed the Government’s estimate that reversing the addition of 2.25 hours to the working week of lower and middle-earning civil servants under Haddington Road would cost some €600m.