The Public Services Committee of the Congress of Trade Unions has secured confirmation that public service pensioners will benefit from benchmarking increases.
Speaking after today's meeting with Department of Finance officials, Peter McLoone, Chairperson of ICTU's Public Services Committee, said the Department had confirmed that benchmarking increases would be applied to pensioners in the usual way.
Today's meeting was the first between the public sector trade unions and the Department of Finance on the implementation of benchmarking pay.
Last week's report on benchmarking recommended pay awards averaging 8.9% for 230,000 public servants.
