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MLSA AGM 2024
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Industrial Action 2022
On the pickets at the Coombe Hospital in May 2022 -
MLSA Agent training November 2024
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MLSA AGM 2024
MLSA members employed by the HSE and Section 38 hospitals have voted by a majority of 93% to take industrial action, up to and including strike action, over the suppression of medical scientist posts by the HSE in its Pay & Numbers Strategy, published in July 2024. The strategy follows a longstanding recruitment and retention crisis in the profession and a recruitment moratorium introduced in late 2023. The turnout in the ballot was 66.9%
The MLSA will consult with members and with other healthcare unions to determine the nature of industrial action to be taken.
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The MLSA will ballot members for industrial action in the coming weeks over the suppression by the HSE of all posts vacant on 31st December 2023 and the failure to replace posts that have become vacant since then. A motion on the issue was passed unanimously at the 2024 MLSA AGM.
Many medical scientist posts were vacant on 31st December 2023 due to the longstanding recruitment and retention crisis in the profession. The HSE has suppressed these... Read More
The Agenda and Standing Orders for the 2024 MLSA AGM are now available in MLSA AGM 2024 section of the Members' Area.
The motions for debate at the 2024 MLSA AGM on 4th October have been issued to members by email and are available in the MLSA AGM 2024 section in the Members' Area of the website.
In view of the summer period the Executive Committee has extended the deadline for receipt of AGM motions to Wednesday 4th of September 2024 at 5pm.
The 2023 MLSA Annual Report is now available in the Members' Area of the website. Members are reminded that the closing date for AGM motions and Executive Committee nominations is this Friday 23rd August at 5pm.
Registration is now open here for LabCon 2024, the biennial joint conference of the MLSA and Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine, which will be held in the Strand Hotel Limerick on and Saturday 5th October. We hope to see as many members as possible at the conference. Click here for the LabCon 2024 programme.
The MLSA AGM will take place at 2pm on Friday 4th October and MLSA members can attend this part of... Read More
The HSE will hold its final roadshow presentation on the HSE Laboratory Services Reform Draft Strategy tomorrow, Friday 10th May. The meeting details including a Microsoft Teams link are available below.
HSE Laboratory Services Reform Draft Strategy 2025-2029
Presentation from Elva Theatre Waterford University Hospital
10th May 11:00 Presented by... Read More
The MLSA is pleased to announce the return in 2024 of LabCon, the joint conference of the MLSA and Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine (ACSLM), after a gap of five years. The conference will be held in the Strand Hotel Limerick on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th October 2024 and an exciting programme is currently in development. The MLSA AGM will be held on the afternoon of Friday 4th October.
MLSA members have voted by a large majority to accept the Public Service Agreement 2024-2026 proposals and the implementation of the Devine Report. In a turnout of 80.8% of members, 95.9% have voted to accept the proposals. ... Read More