Agri-Business
DAFM seeks temporary veterinary inspectors for meat plants
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is currently seeking temporary veterinary inspectors (TVIs) for meat plants around...
Meat Plants
Agri-Business
DAFM hiring temporary veterinary inspectors for meat plants
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is currently hiring temporary veterinary inspectors (TVIs) for meat plants around...
Agri-Business
SIPTU: Sick leave legislation not enough for meat factory workers
SIPTU has said that new statutory sick pay legislation is a “small step in the right direction” when it comes...
Rural Life
362 accidents reported in meat plants in a year
362 accidents were reported to the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) in meat processing plants over an almost 12-month period,...
Rural Life
SIPTU calls on government to support bill 'providing greater rights' to migrant workers
SIPTU representatives have called on the government to reconsider its opposition to a bill which, if enacted, would provide migrant...
Agri-Business
Statutory sick pay scheme to be phased in over 4 years
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has announced details of a new law to give all workers the right to sick pay. The...
Agri-Business
Covid-19 response sees DAFM complete 895 inspections
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has carried out 895 inspections of the country’s meat-processing plants, up...
Rural Life
Weekly rapid antigen testing 'can be used to limit Covid-19 cases in meat plants'
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has today (Friday, April 30) published its advice to the HSE on the...
Agri Politics
MII: 'Every effort has been made' to recruit workers domestically
Meat Industry Ireland (MII) said that “every effort” has been made to recruit meat processing plant workers domestically in the...
Agri-Business
SIPTU seeking ban on agencies providing workers to meat industry
Members of trade union SIPTU are seeking a ban on agencies providing workers to the meat industry so as to...
Rural Life
Bill to provide sick pay scheme for migrant workers launched
People Before Profit has moved a bill to provide a sick pay scheme for migrant workers in the meat, dairy...
Rural Life
Covid-19 rapid testing pilot in meat plants administering 20,000 tests weekly
Following the publication of the Expert Report on Covid-19 Rapid Testing, the immediate introduction of its recommendations across Irish society...
Agri Politics
Proposed bill to make Covid-19 a notifiable workplace illness undergoes scrutiny
Sinn Féin spokesperson on workers’ rights Louise O’Reilly has said she is confident that scrutiny of her bill to make Covid-19...
Rural Life
Covid-19 in meat plants: SIPTU representative reflects on a 'frustrating' year
One year ago, trade union SIPTU says it “set out its stall”, as its concerns grew over Covid-19 spreading within...
Rural Life
Meat processing sector 'not making social and economic contribution it is capable of'
Ireland’s meat processing sector “is not making the social and economic contribution it is capable of and leaves the sector particularly...
Agri-Business
Half of meat plant inspections in last 5 years 'uncovered breaches of employment law'
Figures released to TD Louise O’Reilly by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment show that nearly half of all inspections...
Rural Life
87% of HSA meat plant inspections carried out unannounced since May
87% of the meat plant inspections carried out by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) since May 18, 2020, have...
Agri Politics
Calls for protocol obliging meat plants to make communities aware of Covid outbreaks
A senator has called for meat plants to be obliged to inform local communities of Covid-19 outbreaks in plants. Cork...