Low-paid healthcare workers ask to be allowed bring family members to join them in Ireland

Low-paid healthcare workers ask to be allowed bring family members to join them in Ireland

Many non-EU healthcare workers cannot bring their spouses and children with them to Ireland due to required minimum salaries.

Migrant HCAs: Oireachtas members hear demands for family reunification

“Care is what we do – so let us care for our families” Representatives of Unite the union, Migrant Rights Centre Ireland and Migrant Nurses Ireland today (Wednesday) spoke at an Oireachtas briefing hosted by Ruth Coppinger TD to outline workers’ demands for reform of Department of Justice rules which can see migrant Health Care Assistants (HCAs) and other employment permit holders separated from their families for years. Current rules stipulate …