HSE admin staff to stop answering phones and emails as dispute escalates

Fórsa's Ashley Connolly with protesting HSE staff outside CUH. Picture: Chani Anderson

HSE admin workers plan to stop answering work telephones and emails in a series of rolling bans during January in escalation of an industrial dispute between the Fórsa trade union and the HSE.

Industrial action involving a go-slow on certain tasks began in October in response to an announcement of a recruitment freeze for managerial and clerical roles.