Member updates

As you are aware the INMO, and the other Unions have been objecting to the employment control process currently in place, referred to by the HSE as “Pay & Numbers Strategy”. As a result of this Pay & Numbers Strategy posts within the services which you work are not being filled or replaced.  In addition, the number of staff within your Departments and Units is being further reduced by the number of vacancies that existed but were not occupied within the HSE at the end of December 2023...

As you are aware the HSE has now imposed strict curtailments in respect of recruitment and the filling of posts. They have also issued instructions to the HSE regions that the posts not physically occupied in December 2023 can no longer be considered vacant positions and are cut. No consultation has taken place with healthcare unions on this. When this announcement was made in July all unions objected and raised the issue as a disputed plan, yet there has been no change to the HSE's position despite all health sector unions opposing this and raising concerns for staff safety and by extension ability to provide safe care to patients...

As you may be aware over the last few weeks we have been engaged in negotiations, at the WRC, with representatives of various Government Departments to attempt to negotiate a further agreement on pay for workers in Section 10, 39, 40 and 56 Organisations...

The INMO Executive Council have also established an INMO Private Sector subcommittee to develop further services to our members in the private sector, including increased access to collective bargaining and improved terms and conditions...

An INMO delegation led by INMO President Caroline Gourley, met with the Minister for Older People and Mental Health Mary Butler TD, on the 18^th of July...

Further to the previous notice issued on Friday 12th July 2024, the circular from the HSE to implement the agreement that CNS grades are encompassed as a linked grade to the extension of CNM2 salary scales, will issue next week. It is confirmed that this extension does apply to CNS/CMS grades and that it will apply from the original date of 30^th September 2023...