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# Public Sector

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Voices
Damien Kiberd: 'Top-up' payments part of a game whose rules need to change
“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.”
# Haddington Road
ASTI boss: Teachers' action is "not about pay"
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
'It's not changeable': Tánaiste and Howlin say no renegotiation of Haddington Road
The two Labour ministers’ comments come in the wake of ASTI members rejecting the public sector pay deal.
# Teachers
ASTI to discuss industrial action by teachers
In a ballot on Friday, teachers rejected the Haddington Road public sector pay deal and voted in favour of industrial action.
# volunteering
Minister encourages retired public servants ‘twiddling their thumbs’ to volunteer abroad
Minister of State Joe Costello told TheJournal.ie that his department plans to launch a new civilian volunteer corps later this year.
Voices
Column: “I'm sorry, there are no doctors” - what it's like to work in an understaffed Emergency Department
Overworked staff, backlogs of patients, and an extreme lack of experienced Consultants. Dr Bríd McGrath talks about the struggle involved in working in one of Ireland’s busiest Emergency Departments.
# Greek Protests
Greece readies itself for another general strike
Unions have called for a one-day national mobilisation against the axing re-deployment of thousands of civil servants.
# Pay Day
The Taoiseach, Ministers and every TD are having their pay cut today
As are the country’s 292,000 civil servants who are experiencing the first effects of the Haddington Road Agreement in their pay cheques today.
# Public Sector Pay
The Croke Park Agreement saved the taxpayer €1.8 billion
The final report of the public sector pay deal’s implementation body has outlined the savings it achieved.
Voices
Aaron McKenna: Public service obligation routes should be put out to competitive tender
The government should put public service obligation and school routes out to competitive tender – doing so would save 20 to 30 per cent on simply handing over such cash to public sector monopolies, writes Aaron McKenna.
# Teachers
TUI, ASTI recommend ballot of members on Haddington Road pay deal
The teachers’ unions both decided today to recommend a ballot of their members. The move comes after a number of unions accepted the deal.
# Public Pay
IMO tells members to vote Yes on Haddington Road deal - reluctantly
The doctors’ union says the proposals on the table are “far from perfect” but that on balance, the deal is worth backing.
Voices
Column: The Haddington Road deal is just the same as the last, with a few tweaks
Instead of uniting against this draconian piece of legislation, the unions are operating under a ‘me fein’ attitude that will help no one, writes Kieran Allen.
# Public Sector Pay
UNITE tells members they should vote against Haddington Road deal
The union says the new proposals don’t address its concerns about the broader economic effect of public pay cuts.
# Public Sector Pay
"This was a very difficult decision": INMO accepts Haddington Road deal
The INMO had rejected the Croke Park II pay deal but has said the new deal is the best available for its members
# Public Sector Pay
Haddington Road deal may not be constitutional, says union
The Irish Federation of University Teachers says it has hired a senior barrister to examine the constitutionality of the proposed deal to see if it can be challenged in the courts.
# Haddington Road Deal
Doctors' union delays decision on whether to back new pay deal
The Irish Medical Organisation wants clarification on the nature of proposed talks to encourage junior doctors against emigrating.
# Public Sector
Brian Hayes: 'Unions who reject new public pay deal will face harsher cuts'
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.
# Pay deal
University lecturers agree to enter new Croke Park talks
The Irish Federation of University Teachers said it was up to the official side to prove that talks on a new pay deal are not just an attempt to persuade people to accept proposals that have already been rejected.
# Croke Park II
Pay talks continue as coalition concedes €300m target might be missed
The Junior Finance Minister Brian Hayes said that the original target of €300 million savings for the year might not be achieved.
# Public Sector
Howlin: Contingency plans in place for pay cuts ‘one way or another’
Brendan Howlin says the Government will accept pay deals with individual unions if an overall deal is impossible.
# Croke Park 2a
Health unions in new public pay talks as Croke Park cuts are tweaked
The LRC has agreed amendments to the increment freeze for higher earners, while extended working weeks will be delayed.
# croke park 2
Croke Park deal should INCREASE spending, not cut it, says union
UNITE says trying to cut the public pay bill will shrink the economy – so the proposed savings should be invested instead.
# Croke Park II
Howlin: It's in personal interests of public workers to accept pay cuts
As he prepares for Kieran Mulvey to sound the death knell on pay talks, Brendan Howlin says national solvency is good for everyone.
# Croke Park 2a
SIPTU boss says temporary tax hikes to high earners could avoid public cuts
Jack O’Connor says he is becoming optimistic that there could yet be progress on a replacement to the Croke Park 2 deal.
# Public Sector
Joan Burton: In everybody's interest that we get a public sector pay deal
The Minister for Social Protection says she is “hopeful” a deal can be reached with unions ahead of tomorrow’s deadline.
# croke park 2
Sector-specific talks on table as Howlin prepares for defeat on pay deal
The public expenditure minister tells TheJournal.ie that some unions would need a dramatic U-turn – and that the next option is negotiating with unions on an individual basis.
# Public Sector
Five days to go: New deadline to reach deal on public sector pay cuts
The government is seeking to cut public sector pay by €300 million this year and hopes for a negotiated settlement with trade unions by next week.
# Croke Park it Ain't
Greece forced to sack 15,500 public workers to keep EU funds
MPs have signed off on laws which enforce the first mandatory public layoffs in Greece for over a century.
# Opinion Poll
Fewer than one third of people support public sector pay cuts
A new opinion poll has also found that the majority of respondents want the government to try to renegotiate the Croke Park pay agreement.
# Croke Park II
Lower-paid civil servants to discuss Croke Park fallout
The Civil Public and Services Union’s annual conference will discuss how to act now that Croke Park 2 has been rejected.
# croke park 2
No deal on public pay means no protection against job cuts - Kenny
Enda Kenny says workers rejected the Croke Park 2 deal knowing it would have protected them against mandatory redundancies.
# Public Sector
Government to seek negotiations with unions over cutting €300m from pay
The Cabinet decided this morning to ask the head of the Labour Relations Commission to seek out unions and determine whether or not there is a basis for further negotiations.
# Public Pay
SIPTU president wants promissory note savings used to avoid public pay cuts
Jack O’Connor says using the €1 billion annual savings, and a higher tax rate on high earners, can avoid wide public strikes.
Voices
Aaron McKenna: We must sacrifice industrial peace to save the nation
We have been treating nurses and gardai as equal in importance to receptionists and quango directors, they are not equal in importance, writes Aaron McKenna.
# Teachers
Three teachers unions to ballot for industrial action including possible strikes
The executives of the ASTI, the TUI and the INTO have decided to begin balloting members next month.
# Industrial Action
Nurses warn of industrial action if government legislates for pay cuts
The Psychiatric Nurses Association has called on other public sector unions to threaten a ballot on industrial action if the government legislates to cut pay.
# Leaders' Questions
Government 'absolutely united' behind Howlin in bid to save €300m: Kenny
Enda Kenny says the outcome of the Croke Park 2 vote doesn’t change the Government’s need to cut public payroll costs.
# pay agreement
Croke Park II rejected as SIPTU, INTO, Unite and INMO vote No
SIPTU, the INMO, the IMO and Unite have all rejected the pay deal today.