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A Westmeath builder who failed to keep up with pension payments for his staff has been given until January to come up with a plan to make the payments.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has told the HSE that beds in hospitals in Mayo will be closed due to the release by the HSE of 376 pre-registration student nurses from the west region this week. Replacement qualified nurses have not replaced the student nurses, which means that without this replacement, beds and services will close.

Nurses at the Bon Secours Hospital in Renmore staged a lunchtime protest yesterday (Wednesday) to highlight what they claim is their employer’s decision to renege on a pay agreement brokered earlier this year.

A painting contractor, in court this week (March 24) for failing to pay €45,000 into an employee pension scheme ordered by the Labour Court in October 2008, was given until July 21 to come up with the money after the court heard the downturn had left him still owed “€700,000”.

Members of the Musicians Union of Ireland (MUI) held a protest at the Watergate Theatre in Kilkenny last week where singer Tommy Fleming was performing.

The system that determines the pay and conditions for about 170,000 workers in the country is out of date, totally inappropriate for the current economic circumstances and in need of a radical overhaul, according to IBEC.

Staff at the Kilkenny People printing press were shocked to hear that the facility now owned by Johnston Press is to shut down with the loss of 46 jobs.

An all-out strike involving 400 Galway County Council workers resulted in the jobs of 15 workers being saved.

The dispute over redundancy payments at Carrolls’ Joinery at Ballingarry, Co Kilkenny, is set to escalate as it enters its second week.

Labour in Galway is urging the public to temporarily boycott Coca Cola products as a way of sending a message to the company over its handling of the situation in its Tuam plant.