Laura Bambrick
@drbambrick.bsky.social
Social and employment policy @ the Irish Congress of Trade Unions
More than 3,400 have already added their voice to the government consultation on your right to request remote working.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
More than 3,400 have already added their voice to the government consultation on your right to request remote working.
You can too: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
You can too: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
📣Calling all union reps & staff
Will you be able to answer your members’ questions when the first auto-enrolment contributions are deducted from 800,000 pay packets in January?
Fear not! ICTU has you covered.
Auto-Enrolment Ask Me Anything. 23rd October.
Sign up✍️
Will you be able to answer your members’ questions when the first auto-enrolment contributions are deducted from 800,000 pay packets in January?
Fear not! ICTU has you covered.
Auto-Enrolment Ask Me Anything. 23rd October.
Sign up✍️
September 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
📣Calling all union reps & staff
Will you be able to answer your members’ questions when the first auto-enrolment contributions are deducted from 800,000 pay packets in January?
Fear not! ICTU has you covered.
Auto-Enrolment Ask Me Anything. 23rd October.
Sign up✍️
Will you be able to answer your members’ questions when the first auto-enrolment contributions are deducted from 800,000 pay packets in January?
Fear not! ICTU has you covered.
Auto-Enrolment Ask Me Anything. 23rd October.
Sign up✍️
I spoke to the Indo about a motion passed at our conference for a firefighters union’s Fight for 52 (52 weeks full pay for employees on maternity leave) to be ICTU policy.
Enough pearl-clutching about falling fertility. Get mad at the financial penalty on working families and join our Fight for 52!
Enough pearl-clutching about falling fertility. Get mad at the financial penalty on working families and join our Fight for 52!
July 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I spoke to the Indo about a motion passed at our conference for a firefighters union’s Fight for 52 (52 weeks full pay for employees on maternity leave) to be ICTU policy.
Enough pearl-clutching about falling fertility. Get mad at the financial penalty on working families and join our Fight for 52!
Enough pearl-clutching about falling fertility. Get mad at the financial penalty on working families and join our Fight for 52!
€12 on the pension would push it over €300 a week (currently €289.30) and put the breaks on mounting accusations of an uncaring government.
June 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
€12 on the pension would push it over €300 a week (currently €289.30) and put the breaks on mounting accusations of an uncaring government.
Half a billion handout with no strings attached.
June 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Half a billion handout with no strings attached.
GONE TO PRINT🤸🏻♀️
2-year union activity report 🗓️
165 pages 📑
200+ photos 📸
ZERO typos 🤥
5-star www.three-creative.com/ designer 🧑🎨
4 weeks till we see y’all at our #BDC25 👋
2-year union activity report 🗓️
165 pages 📑
200+ photos 📸
ZERO typos 🤥
5-star www.three-creative.com/ designer 🧑🎨
4 weeks till we see y’all at our #BDC25 👋
June 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
GONE TO PRINT🤸🏻♀️
2-year union activity report 🗓️
165 pages 📑
200+ photos 📸
ZERO typos 🤥
5-star www.three-creative.com/ designer 🧑🎨
4 weeks till we see y’all at our #BDC25 👋
2-year union activity report 🗓️
165 pages 📑
200+ photos 📸
ZERO typos 🤥
5-star www.three-creative.com/ designer 🧑🎨
4 weeks till we see y’all at our #BDC25 👋
Happy May Day fellow wage slaves 🚩
It’s better in a union.
It’s better in a union.
May 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Happy May Day fellow wage slaves 🚩
It’s better in a union.
It’s better in a union.
Delighted to be back where it all began for me to share my cheat sheet for wannabe policymakers at TCD alumni careers night.
April 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Delighted to be back where it all began for me to share my cheat sheet for wannabe policymakers at TCD alumni careers night.
Twice as many in all demographics oppose, as support, government’s decision to break their promises on a living wage and sick pay.
Business Post/ Red C opinion tracker poll
Business Post/ Red C opinion tracker poll
April 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Twice as many in all demographics oppose, as support, government’s decision to break their promises on a living wage and sick pay.
Business Post/ Red C opinion tracker poll
Business Post/ Red C opinion tracker poll
Hope! Just 1 in 4 (24%) voters support government’s decision to break their promises on a living wage and sick pay.
April 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hope! Just 1 in 4 (24%) voters support government’s decision to break their promises on a living wage and sick pay.
Around half of all the qualified apprentices in 2020 were aged OVER 26 years.
Apprentices still have no right to a minimum wage.
The number of qualified apprentices in 2020 is down 30% from its 2011 high point.
Who will build those 300,000 homes over the next 5 years?
Apprentices still have no right to a minimum wage.
The number of qualified apprentices in 2020 is down 30% from its 2011 high point.
Who will build those 300,000 homes over the next 5 years?
April 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Around half of all the qualified apprentices in 2020 were aged OVER 26 years.
Apprentices still have no right to a minimum wage.
The number of qualified apprentices in 2020 is down 30% from its 2011 high point.
Who will build those 300,000 homes over the next 5 years?
Apprentices still have no right to a minimum wage.
The number of qualified apprentices in 2020 is down 30% from its 2011 high point.
Who will build those 300,000 homes over the next 5 years?
“This is really about stuffing the mouths of business with gold to silence their incessant protests.
April 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
“This is really about stuffing the mouths of business with gold to silence their incessant protests.
My answer to a hardy annual - Do I get Good Friday off work? ⤵️
More on your public holidays’ rights here ➡️ jrnl.ie/6609436
More on your public holidays’ rights here ➡️ jrnl.ie/6609436
April 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
My answer to a hardy annual - Do I get Good Friday off work? ⤵️
More on your public holidays’ rights here ➡️ jrnl.ie/6609436
More on your public holidays’ rights here ➡️ jrnl.ie/6609436
In good economic times and bad, critics of the minimum wage claim a rise in the rate will kill jobs.
Wrong then, wrong today!
Join us on May Day to mark the 25th anniversary of Ireland’s minimum wage.
Wrong then, wrong today!
Join us on May Day to mark the 25th anniversary of Ireland’s minimum wage.
April 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
In good economic times and bad, critics of the minimum wage claim a rise in the rate will kill jobs.
Wrong then, wrong today!
Join us on May Day to mark the 25th anniversary of Ireland’s minimum wage.
Wrong then, wrong today!
Join us on May Day to mark the 25th anniversary of Ireland’s minimum wage.
A nice end to a long week.
4,400 workers each benefitted €400 on average from a union-led temporary amendment to the legislation calculating their redundancy entitlement.
4,400 workers each benefitted €400 on average from a union-led temporary amendment to the legislation calculating their redundancy entitlement.
April 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A nice end to a long week.
4,400 workers each benefitted €400 on average from a union-led temporary amendment to the legislation calculating their redundancy entitlement.
4,400 workers each benefitted €400 on average from a union-led temporary amendment to the legislation calculating their redundancy entitlement.
From yesterday’s Sunday Independent: Benefits of a good father-child bond are huge. So why aren’t more men taking paternity leave?
“The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has weighed in, saying the €289 flat rate of payment for the leave is a lose-lose for families and ⤵️
“The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has weighed in, saying the €289 flat rate of payment for the leave is a lose-lose for families and ⤵️
April 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
From yesterday’s Sunday Independent: Benefits of a good father-child bond are huge. So why aren’t more men taking paternity leave?
“The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has weighed in, saying the €289 flat rate of payment for the leave is a lose-lose for families and ⤵️
“The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has weighed in, saying the €289 flat rate of payment for the leave is a lose-lose for families and ⤵️
Sick workers first up to be thrown under the bus. VAT rate cut for hospitality still on the cards.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others in Government’s tariffs response plan.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others in Government’s tariffs response plan.
April 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Sick workers first up to be thrown under the bus. VAT rate cut for hospitality still on the cards.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others in Government’s tariffs response plan.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others in Government’s tariffs response plan.
Government determined not to let a good crisis go to waste.
Plans to increase paid sick leave further delayed
Minimum wage will be next for the chop. Because famously protecting household spending is bad for businesses during economic uncertainty🙄
Plans to increase paid sick leave further delayed
Minimum wage will be next for the chop. Because famously protecting household spending is bad for businesses during economic uncertainty🙄
April 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Government determined not to let a good crisis go to waste.
Plans to increase paid sick leave further delayed
Minimum wage will be next for the chop. Because famously protecting household spending is bad for businesses during economic uncertainty🙄
Plans to increase paid sick leave further delayed
Minimum wage will be next for the chop. Because famously protecting household spending is bad for businesses during economic uncertainty🙄
The minimum wage turns 25 today🎈
We're getting together to mark it on May Day🚩
Whether you love it or loathe it, join us!
Details below. Full programme to follow.
We're getting together to mark it on May Day🚩
Whether you love it or loathe it, join us!
Details below. Full programme to follow.
April 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The minimum wage turns 25 today🎈
We're getting together to mark it on May Day🚩
Whether you love it or loathe it, join us!
Details below. Full programme to follow.
We're getting together to mark it on May Day🚩
Whether you love it or loathe it, join us!
Details below. Full programme to follow.
Read here - www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
March 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Read here - www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
Unions have long stressed the link between the low payment rate for family leave benefits and the low take-up by men.
“If we are serious about closing the gender pay and pensions gaps, we have to remove the financial barriers for men to do a fairer share of caring for their babies” - Me
“If we are serious about closing the gender pay and pensions gaps, we have to remove the financial barriers for men to do a fairer share of caring for their babies” - Me
March 31, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Unions have long stressed the link between the low payment rate for family leave benefits and the low take-up by men.
“If we are serious about closing the gender pay and pensions gaps, we have to remove the financial barriers for men to do a fairer share of caring for their babies” - Me
“If we are serious about closing the gender pay and pensions gaps, we have to remove the financial barriers for men to do a fairer share of caring for their babies” - Me
How it started✊ How it's going🙌
March 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How it started✊ How it's going🙌