# public-sector - Saturday 9 April, 2022
# Chief Medical Officer
# Chief Medical Officer
Dr Holohan said he will leave the public service after stepping down as CMO later this year.
# public-sector - Tuesday 23 February, 2021
# Public Sector
# Public Sector
The package was ratified at a meeting this morning.
# public-sector - Tuesday 24 November, 2020
# PSSA
# PSSA
The Public Service Stability Agreement expires at the end of the year.
# public-sector - Wednesday 23 September, 2020
# Pay Increase
# Pay Increase
Many are angry that TDs and senators will see a pay rise next week.
# public-sector - Thursday 19 March, 2020
# Bank Accounts
# Bank Accounts
The National Shared Services Office is aware of the issue and working to resolve it.
# public-sector - Wednesday 12 June, 2019
# Jobs Growth
# Jobs Growth
Over 4,900 jobs were created in public administration last year, according to the latest Savills Ireland report.
# public-sector - Thursday 14 February, 2019
# INTO
# INTO
Teacher’s union the INTO said that it the ruling was “a bitter disappointment”.
# public-sector - Thursday 13 July, 2017
# Pay Inequality
# Pay Inequality
The INTO said that the pay deal did not address the issue of pay inequality for newcomers to the profession.
# public-sector - Thursday 8 June, 2017
# Lansdowne 2.0
# Lansdowne 2.0
A draft deal to succeed the Lansdowne Road agreement was reached late last night.
# public-sector - Friday 28 April, 2017
# Pay Restoration
# Pay Restoration
The Public Service Pay Commission will soon deliver its report.
# public-sector - Thursday 20 April, 2017
# Restoration
# Restoration
Geraghty said that he didn’t want the issue to be a public sector versus private sector divide, but said that their demands were “reasonable”.
# public-sector - Wednesday 15 March, 2017
# Show Me The Money
# Show Me The Money
Earnings were generally higher in the public sector, but the gap has narrowed markedly.
# public-sector - Tuesday 29 November, 2016
# Lansdowne Road
# Lansdowne Road
Siptu has deferred its planned industrial action ballot as a result.
# public-sector - Tuesday 15 November, 2016
# Money Money Money
# Money Money Money
Pressure is mounting on government to deal with the public pay row, as private sector unions set to lodge pay claims.
# public-sector - Monday 14 November, 2016
# Industrial Unrest
# Industrial Unrest
The ongoing dispute centres on the restoration of an agreed €3000 “living-out” allowance.
# public-sector - Friday 30 September, 2016
# Mo Money Mo Problems
# Mo Money Mo Problems
Minister Donohoe reiterated that any public sector pay claims must be settled through the Lansdowne Agreement.
# public-sector - Saturday 30 April, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
In planning the project, political expediency and complacency took precedence over the actual needs of children, writes Aaron McKenna.
# public-sector - Sunday 3 April, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
When addressing public sector pay, the big elephant in the room isn’t just the upfront costs of recruiting new entrants, Aaron McKenna argues.
# public-sector - Tuesday 3 November, 2015
# Rewarding Times
# Rewarding Times
The party launched the first of two policy documents (relating to public service rewards and a ‘right to know’ public data law) this afternoon.
# public-sector - Monday 10 August, 2015
# Lansdowne Road Agreement
# Lansdowne Road Agreement
Unite have said no to the Lansdowne Road proposals.
# public-sector - Wednesday 24 June, 2015
# Opinion
# Opinion
Leo Varadkar has announced a new initiative for public sector employees. – but is it a good idea or a bad idea?
# public-sector - Saturday 6 June, 2015
# Opinion
# Opinion
A €2,000 pay rise for virtually all public sector workers over the next two years is madness, no matter what kind of spin the union bosses want to put on it.
# public-sector - Tuesday 2 June, 2015
# Public Sector Pay
# Public Sector Pay
Ibec has warned that the new public sector pay deal could create create “unrealistic wage expectation” in the private sector.
# public-sector - Friday 29 May, 2015
# Cash Money
# Cash Money
The government has struck a deal with public sector unions this evening.
# public-sector - Thursday 7 May, 2015
# Lunch Fix
# Lunch Fix
Don’t have time to mull over the news? Here’s everything you need to know.
# public-sector - Saturday 7 March, 2015
# Prime Numbers
# Prime Numbers
Plus: How much did Willie Walsh earn last year?
# public-sector - Sunday 4 January, 2015
# Haddington Road
# Haddington Road
The Taoiseach has said economic recovery will be a priority in any talks about wage increases.
# public-sector - Wednesday 5 November, 2014
# Civil Service
# Civil Service
So much irrationality is directed at our civil service, including the dangerous notion of privatisation of functions, that the hard work of many decent people is overlooked.
# public-sector - Saturday 1 November, 2014
# Reform
# Reform
The only effective public sector reform is privatisation.
# public-sector - Wednesday 10 September, 2014
# Embargo
# Embargo
The Council are set to vote on a motion that could make the local authority one of the first in the country to stop using the Government backed internships.
# public-sector - Monday 25 August, 2014
# Pay Packets
# Pay Packets
The average public sector wage is just short of €920 per week – but experts say that could be skewed.
# public-sector - Saturday 2 August, 2014
# Public Sector
# Public Sector
The public sector employs hundreds of thousands of people, yet it rarely if ever actually dismisses anyone. It’s bizarre.
# public-sector - Wednesday 23 July, 2014
# MacGill
# MacGill
Robert Watt has admitted it is easier to sack workers in the private sector than it is in the public sector.
# public-sector - Wednesday 16 April, 2014
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
Cutting costly emissions from thousands of public buildings would help the environment and save Ireland €200m a year – without requiring a single job loss.
# public-sector - Sunday 23 March, 2014
# Not Kidding
# Not Kidding
John Kidd said he’ll be sticking up for middle income workers if he’s elected.
# public-sector - Friday 21 March, 2014
# Going Through The Motions
# Going Through The Motions
Delegates at the party’s 75th annual Ard Fheis will vote on everything from disability quotas in politics to legalising marijuana.
# public-sector - Tuesday 14 January, 2014
# Public Service
# Public Service
Launching new public service reform plans today, the Minister of State Brian Hayes said there has been “a lot done, more to do, to borrow a phrase from the past”.
# public-sector - Sunday 24 November, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
“The model of social partnership promoted since 1987 relies for its internal cohesion on permitting people at various levels within the system to milk that system for their own benefit.”
# public-sector - Tuesday 24 September, 2013
# Haddington Road
# Haddington Road
Pat King has said the planned action will affect students only “marginally”. Teachers will withdraw from out-of-hours duties including parent and staff meetings from tomorrow week.
# Teachers
# Teachers
The two Labour ministers’ comments come in the wake of ASTI members rejecting the public sector pay deal.