{"id":386244,"date":"2026-03-15T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/386244\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:53:11","slug":"call-for-employers-to-be-more-flexible-about-staff-working-from-home-as-commuting-costs-surge-for-motorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/386244\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for employers to be more flexible about staff working from home as commuting costs surge for motorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">F\u00f3rsa, FSU and ICTU say employers should take note of recent increases since Iran war started\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Motorists in Ireland are paying more for their fuel at the pumps. Stock photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e1e8c056-311f-40fa-931a-d6833cc73938.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)\">Motorists in Ireland are paying more for their fuel at the pumps. Stock photo: Getty<\/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)\">Two of Ireland\u2019s largest unions, F\u00f3rsa and the Financial Services Union (FSU), have called on employers to be more flexible about staff working from home as commuting costs surge for hundreds of thousands of workers.<\/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)\">With many fuel forecourts across Ireland now charging over \u20ac2 a litre, employees driving to work face hefty bills to fill their tanks. It is further strain for already hard-pressed consumers, with the cost of living set to increase due to the war in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F\u00f3rsa, FSU and ICTU say employers should take note of recent increases since Iran war started Motorists in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[41023,625,79,22767,18,13266,19,18929,17,1265,1737],"class_list":{"0":"post-386244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-allied-irish-banks","9":"tag-bank-of-ireland","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-central-bank-of-ireland","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ictu","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-sean-pollock","18":"tag-working-from-home"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116232821703402252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386244","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=386244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}