20/01/2014

Industrial Action Underway At Department Of Agriculture

Industrial action has been launched by more than 600 employees of the Department of Agriculture, in a move which could affect food exports and payments to farmers.

It is understood that the department will work with Impact, the union representing the technical staff, in the hopes of finding an early solution to the dispute.

The industrial action will begin with what the union described as "measures designed to case administrative inconvenience to management without impacting on farmers or the food industry."

(MH/JP)

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