Higgins: Covid-19 pandemic is 'once-in-a-generation opportunity' to improve workers rights

President Higgins said that during the crisis employers and governments around the world have moved to "restrict further the rights of working people" in "insidious and opportunistic" ways. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie 

President Michael D Higgins has said the Covid-19 pandemic has presented us with a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" to improve our society and working life.

Speaking at the annual conference of the trade union Fórsa, he praised staff and more than 80,000 members for their contributions during the Covid-19 pandemic, across a diverse field of professions, occupations, grades and work settings.