{"id":369408,"date":"2026-03-05T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/369408\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:26:10","slug":"the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle-on-remote-working-unions-clash-with-government-after-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/369408\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The genie is out of the bottle on remote working\u2019 \u2013 unions clash with government after new report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Laura Bambrick, who is a spokeswoman for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9b813871-8dc9-4da1-95da-14445d56e737.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Laura Bambrick, who is a spokeswoman for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Government review of the law that gives workers the right to request remote working has been described as \u201cout of touch with reality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An Irish Congress of Trade Unions spokesperson has criticised the review, published today, that concludes that no legislative change is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Bambrick, who is a spokeswoman for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions A Government review of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43327,9,10,18,13,14,6,13266,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-369408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-anne-marie-walsh","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ictu","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116177271780194166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}