Gareth Murphy

Irish banks plot fresh wave of job cuts as low ECB rates and Brexit bite

Four of the State’s five surviving retail banks are working on a major cost-cutting drive

One-quarter of financial workers feel obliged to answer work emails out of hours

Financial Services Union calls for ‘right to disconnect’ measures amid survey results

Government to publish report on worker ‘techno-stress’ and ‘right to disconnect’

Unions point to increasingly routine after-hours work contact, often via company smartphones

The pushback against Ireland’s always-on work culture starts here

Momentum gathering to flick the off switch on after hours e-contact by employers

Stress of after-work emails causing mental health crisis, union says

Government urged take action on legal ‘right to disconnect’ from work after hours

Finance union backs Sinn Féin Bill to limit mortgage loan sales

Union ‘concerned’ about proposed EU directive promoting distressed loans market

FSU union targets IFSC banks and fintechs in conditions survey

Survey comes as Irish retail banks have shed more than 25,000 jobs over the past decade

Ulster Bank staff vote to accept pay rise of up to 3%

Some 750 staff in Republic will get 3% increase, with same number getting 1.25%-3%

KBC refuses to engage with staff over arson attacks, union says

Controversial eviction took place at Roscommon farm

Threats to target bankers’ homes ‘appalling’, bank staff union says

Financial Services Union urges KBC Bank to protect vulnerable staff as protests escalate

Bank of Ireland eyes more job cuts but vows to stick to union agreements

CEO Francesca McDonagh says bank will adhere to existing restructuring arrangement

Bank union lukewarm on lifting executive pay restraints

Call for rank-and-file staff to be rewarded ahead of top bankers

‘Self-regulatory’ banking culture board won’t work

Financial Services Union calls for other stakeholders to help bank behaviour change

Ulster Bank tells staff of plan to eliminate 54 branch posts

Move comes on top of 200 job losses among staff addressing mortgage tracker scandal

Ulster Bank agrees to pay rise for staff of up to 5%

A ballot of Financial Services Union members on the proposal is set to get underway

Central Bank’s Mary O’Dea quits for banking institute

O’Dea to succeed Feeney as chief executive of Institute of Banking

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