RISK ASSESSOR APPOINTED TO DEAL WITH UHG STAFF CONCERNS

Date Published: 20-Oct-2010

A risk assessor will be appointed at University Hospital Galway to help deal with the concerns of several staff who staged a walk out protest on Monday.

Nine porters stopped work and gathered outside UHG in retaliation over the return of a worker who had been suspended last December.

The worker in question had been suspended pending an investigation of an alleged assault.

All staff involved in the incident have returned to work.

Trade union SIPTU has now initiated a protocol to staff on work practice, and talks between the HSE will take place at the Labour relations commission next week.

SIPTU spokesperson and councillor Colm Keaveney says the appointed risk assessor will decide how best to handle the situation.