Agri-Business
Over 1,000 work permits issued in agriculture, fishing and forestry
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE) issued 1,002 work permits for foreign-national workers in the agriculture, forestry and fishing...
Meat Processers
Agri-Business
842 work permits issued for agriculture, forestry and fishing sector
842 work permits for foreign-national workers were issued in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector in the first two months...
Beef News
MII: Factories working to quickly restart beef exports to China
Meat Industry Ireland (MII), the Ibec sector organisation representing primary beef processing companies, has welcomed the resumption of beef exports...
Rural Life
'Meat processing facilities seem to be places that Covid loves' - Minister for Health
“I was not aware of any issues specifically for the three counties [Kildare, Laois and Offaly] but what we were...
Beef
4 out of 8 'significant' Covid-19 clusters are in food processing factories
Four out of eight “significant” Covid-19 clusters in Ireland are in food processing factories, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has...
Beef
Meat plants given employees' Covid-19 test results before workers themselves
Management at some meat plants were given the results of their workers’ Covid-19 tests before the workers themselves, Minister of...
Agri-Business
How are meat plant staff faring with social distancing?
Social distancing has become a part of working life for everybody in recent weeks. However, in some work environments, this...
Beef
SIPTU calls for beef conflict resolution as plant workers lose out
The Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU) is calling for all parties in the beef sector to come together and...
Agri-Business
1,500 non-EEA work permits available for meat plants
An additional 750 work permits for non-EEA (European Economic Area) citizens have been granted for meat processing operatives by the...
Agri Politics
Dispute resolution delayed because of annual leave
The dispute between Government departments and Veterinary Ireland (VI) continues to rumble on, despite a meeting between the parties last Wednesday...
Agri-Business
Additional 500 permits granted for meat processing operatives
It has been confirmed today (Friday, August 10) that an additional 500 permits have been granted for meat processing operatives....