The gap between private pensions and public pensions has the government worried
Enda Kenny said Minister Paschal Donohoe will not deal with its strategy for public pay until the Public Pay Commission sends its report.
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Enda Kenny said Minister Paschal Donohoe will not deal with its strategy for public pay until the Public Pay Commission sends its report.
There has been some movement on supervision and substitution and Junior Cert cycle reform.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he has “no intention” of allowing the Defence Forces access to the Workplace Relations Commission or the Labour Court.
Minister Paschal Donohoe is holding the line that the Lansdowne Road Agreement is the only show in town.
Teachers have planned to strike on seven days between 27 October and 7 December.
Some students in exam years have expressed an interest in studying in school during these days but this is not likely to be feasible due to the lack of supervision and insurance requirements.
The commission will advise the government on pay for hundreds of thousands of public sector workers.
It looks likely the agreement will be accepted though some workers are not at all satisfied with it.
The exact details are still being hammered out.
The former Minister for Justice was entitled to these recently abolished payments.
The recommendations come after a HSE review of Section 38 pay agreement.
A letter from Minister James Reilly has detailed how ten organisations have confirmed their compliance.
The hospital group was hauled before the HSE to discuss its compliance with public sector pay rules.
In a second vote on the Government pay deal, union leaders have urged secondary teachers to reject it.
The union representing 17,000 secondary teachers voted by way of a 63 per cent majority to reject the deal.
The INMO said that interns are being asked to increase their hours while only being paid 50 per cent of the staff rate of pay.
The union represents workers in the Civil Service, An Post, FÁS and other organisations.
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The Association of Higher and Civil Public Servants has voted 64 to 36 per cent to back the agreement.
The Irish Medical Organisation and the Civil and Public Service Union become the latest to accept the pay plan.
The deal marks the first time that Gardaí had been given a direct role in negotiating their own pay terms.
The doctors’ union says the proposals on the table are “far from perfect” but that on balance, the deal is worth backing.
The union says the new proposals don’t address its concerns about the broader economic effect of public pay cuts.
Public servants earning over €65,000 a year will have pay cuts from July 1 after this evening’s Dáil vote.
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TDs will today begin discussing legislation that cuts their own pay, as well as others who earn €65,000 in the public purse.
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The Irish Medical Organisation wants clarification on the nature of proposed talks to encourage junior doctors against emigrating.
Negotiations have “concluded” on the Haddington Road deal, said the junior finance minister, adding less favourable conditions will apply to those unions who reject it.
The ASTI and TUI say the ‘Haddington Road’ proposals aren’t sufficiently different from Croke Park 2 to change their minds.
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The country’s biggest trade union says the Haddington Road deal maintains protection against redundancy or a major redeployment.
Some staff at the NTMA refused to take voluntary pay cuts – so now the agency will be liable to mandatory deductions.
‘Croke Park’ is dead, long live ‘Haddington Road’.
The primary teachers’ union says the new proposals are an improvement on the rejected Croke Park 2 deal.
The IMO and INTO have both published details of the sector-specific deals tabled at the Labour Relations Commission.
The minister said he was glad the structure was there for a new deal but was “not taking anything for granted in relation to the ballot”.