Government’s business support package dismissed as election ploy by Ictu

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Simon Harris’ new enterprise support package will leave the lowest-paid, sick, migrant, and retired workers ‘paying the price’

Simon Harris’s new enterprise support package will leave the lowest paid, sick, migrant and retired workers ‘paying the price’Owen Reidy, general secretary of Ictu. Ictu says a series of 'anti-worker measures' cannot be justified in a booming economy that is at close to full employment. Photograph: Tommy Clancy

At their monthly meeting and in advance of a Dáil discussion on the latest business support package, the executive council of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions roundly condemned the Coalition for approving the measures. Ictu said trade unions “have never denied sector specific challenges” and that vulnerable but viable businesses “should be supported”.

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