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Section 39 employees to receive pay rises next month

Around 7,000 workers in 250 state-funded health and social care bodies known as Section 39 agencies are to receive pay rises from next month in settlement of their dispute over restoration of austerity-era pay cuts.

Business • 10 Dec 20

There has been mounting anger among trade unions about the failure to resolve the two-tier pay structure

Call for acceleration of pay restoration in budget

The Government must accelerate pay restoration for post-2011 public service recruits on 10% lower pay rates by making funding available in October's budget, according to the Forsa trade union.

Ireland • 20 Apr 18

Minister Paschal Donohoe said the restoration of equal pay will be complex and costly

€200m bill to restore equal pay for public servants

It would cost €200m to restore equal pay for over 60,000 public servants recruited since 2011 on lower terms and conditions, according to a new report published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

News • 16 Mar 18

The new commission will report on pay restoration by the middle of next year

Pay commission to look at public sector pay

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe has announced the establishment of a pay commission to discuss how public servants' pay can be restored in an orderly and affordable manner.

News • 11 Oct 16

Brendan Howlin said pay restoration would require a multi-annual approach

Pay restoration deal to involve reform - Howlin

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin has pledged that lower paid public servants will be the major beneficiaries when pay cuts are restored.

News • 23 Apr 15

The CPSU represents 14,000 lower grade civil servants

CPSU calls for flat-rate pay restoration

The union representing lower paid civil servants has said the restoration of pay cuts should be done through flat rate increases rather than percentage increases, which discriminate in favour of higher-paid workers.

Business • 03 Mar 15