Following a failure by the Health Service Executive to resolve the matter with the Union, Independent Workers Union members across three HSE Housekeeping grades will be raising complaints to the Workplace Relations Commission regarding the flawed implementation of the Phase IV of the Job Evaluation Scheme for HSE Support Staff.

The members raising these complaints are from across three hospitals:

• Cork University Hospital
• Letterkenny University Hospital
• University Hospital Limerick

The Job Evaluation Scheme, which was re-established in April 2017, was intended to examine the work undertaken by support staff and to determine whether there had been any changes to the size and scope of responsibilities and necessary skills relating to the fulfillment of support staff roles. Phase IV, which covered the housekeeping grades, began in September 2020. However, due to COVID-19 and the cyber-attack on the HSE, the evaluation was not completed until May 2022.

In December 2022, the results of the Evaluation were released. Only six grades out of the grades included in Phase IV were deemed