“University lecturers are taking legal action against a cost-saving ban on early retirement deals involving lump sums of about €200,000 for senior academics. The Government-imposed ban is hitting plans by up to 30 staff, academics and others at NUI Maynooth to leave their posts early over the next year. But the lecturers’ union, the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT), claims the ban breaches agreements reached with individual staff members …” (more)
[Katherine Donnelly, Independent, 5 October]