Unions demand Taoiseach intervenes to save employment service

Siptu and Fórsa members protesting outside Leinster House today to highlight their concern at proposals to ‘commodify’ jobseekers and turn services over to for-profit private companies. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

Staff in local employment services have called on the Taoiseach to intervene in a dispute, in what workers described as a “threat of privatisation”.

More than 100 demonstrators gathered outside Leinster House in Dublin to protest against the “threat to their livelihoods” and services they provide to the community.