Die Financial Services Union nimmt ihren Kampf gegen die Rückkehr zur Rückkehr zur Bank von Irland an die WRC
https://www.thejournal.ie/bank-of-ireland-hybrid-working-wrc-6794838-Aug2025/
Von Complex_Hunter35
Die Financial Services Union nimmt ihren Kampf gegen die Rückkehr zur Rückkehr zur Bank von Irland an die WRC
https://www.thejournal.ie/bank-of-ireland-hybrid-working-wrc-6794838-Aug2025/
Von Complex_Hunter35
14 Kommentare
Eight days isn’t too bad but it will probably go up.
Can’t see them winning.
Many jobs at the bank have no customer facing aspect and don’t need to be in the office. The blanket order to return to office makes no sense in 2025, and is intended to encourage voluntary resignations. I think BOI is just trying to get ahead of a recession without having to pay compensation for dismissal.
Part of the reason I’m not a customer is because I had to keep going into a branch to do things that should be easy online. It’s not 1990 any more.
I hope BOI loses to the union.
This is getting kicked straight out.
Your employer pays your wages and wants you in the office.
Suck it up or leave. That is unless you signed a contract which agreed that you would be working remotely.
Most of us accept that working in the office is more productive tbf.
RTO is being weaponised and used to get around our Redundancy laws
This RTO is a joke. They love to scream about how it’s about collaboration and they feel best work is done in person. Nonsense.
The real reason is they have these massive office buildings with crazy rent that nobody is attending and they can’t get out of their contracts for the building.
AIB not letting people work from hubs or local branches is insane.
Going from fully remote to ~twice a week is honestly rough lol. You’d be so out of practice of commuting and the longer day it entails that the first few months will genuinely be brutal. And I know there will be people saying I’m soft for saying this but it’s true lol, you adapt to the extra 2 hours or so of sleep.
Covid is over. No need at all for people to still be working from home.
I find the rhetoric of
„well Mary has to be on site 5 days a week so John you can’t work from home anymore because it’s unfair“
Mary works customer facing, John works in a office which he barely has to leave…
Have seen this in other industries, like manufacturing…the folks doing the manual work need to be on site and know WFH isn’t an option for them, but the 50 folks in the office dealing with supply chains, ordering, payroll etc don’t need to be on site for the vast majority of their work, and the folks on the floor certainly wouldn’t begrudge them WFH
Bank of Ireland pay seriously below market, it’s not the 90s where staff could buy houses in Dublin. You pay shit and people have to commute from Meath. If you make people commute 6+ hours a week (1.5 hr+ each way twice a week) then they are going to leave. Seriously the quality of staff is declining because the workload and pay is really not market. Lots of roles 40% off market
Unions should be wary of fighting any type of RTO. Total rejection may be a foolish argument.
I mean, if the employers win here Unions & as staff lose leverage and makes further fights to maintain more remote days than in-office days more difficult.
I work in a hybrid situation. 2 Days in the office, 3 days remote. It works decently enough.
We were fully remote for about a year during 2020 to 2021, and then eased back.
I think it provides decent balance. I’m in the office 3x days per week often enough of my own cause, as we may have events & stuff on.
I mean if someone does something in a job a certain way for 5 years and no one questions it there is an argument to be made that it’s now the rule.
There is also the argument that a lot of people were hired in on the basis that this was a thing. I think if the union plays their cards right, they can make a fair argument they could make a fair argument that whatever is in people’s original contract no longer applies.
I also think there is an argument that if they insist a person be in a specific place each day at a specific time, specified compensation should be paid for the travel. If my employer insists i go to Belfast or London tomorrow they don’t expect me to pay for the flights and the taxis etc. can’t see how this is any different.
Added context:
BOI is claiming the union does not have negotiation rights on contractual arrangements regarding work locations, despite the union pointing out that they already have numerous agreements that relate to employees’ work locations.
The union has also pointed out that despite claiming to have incorporated feedback into their approach and to have engaged with the union in good faith, BOI haven’t produced any data that validates the RTO or paid any heed to the large number of staff who have said they will consider changing jobs as a result of the change.
The suspicion being that pushing people to leave is in fact BOI’s desired outcome.
The union is also advising members that if they are asked about their hybrid working arrangements, they should say the dispute is “pending conciliation at the WRC and you are following the union’s directive to maintain your current working arrangements”.
>The Bank of Ireland spokesperson said: “We are very confident the majority of our people see this as a very fair approach which balances personal working preferences with the needs of our customers, colleagues and the company as a whole.”<
I can tell you as a member of staff with New Ireland that this is absolute and utter horse shite. The vast majority of people I have spoken to are angry at this.