A recruitment company hiring contact tracers for the Health Service Executive has said there was an "error" in contracts sent to job applicants, described in the Dáil today as "zero-hour" contracts.
In a statement, the company CPL said it was writing to candidates with an amended letter. CPL said the letter would reassure candidates that the arrangements were on the basis of 37-hour contracts per week over an 11-month period.
It comes after Solidarity-People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett said that he had received an email from a science graduate, who had applied for a job as a contract tracer and had received a "zero-hour" contract from CPL.