Ireland's pay rates are not pushing more nurses, midwives and doctors to work abroad - report
The report said that there were issues around recruiting consultants with certain specialities in specific areas.
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The report said that there were issues around recruiting consultants with certain specialities in specific areas.
The Minister for Finance published a bill ratifying a new public workers’ pay deal which was drafted earlier this year.
Minister Paschal Donohoe says only public sector workers inside a new agreement will benefit from it.
The INTO said that the pay deal did not address the issue of pay inequality for newcomers to the profession.
The union said that “on balance”, the pluses outweighed the negatives on the deal.
A draft deal to succeed the Lansdowne Road agreement was reached late last night.
Teachers, gardaí and nurses have all voted in favour of industrial action in the past year.
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland carried out a survey that indicates teachers’ morale at work is low because of the public pay dispute.
Siptu has deferred its planned industrial action ballot as a result.
The INMO General Secretary made a series of claims on Claire Byrne Live this week. Here’s our FactCheck roundup.
A total of 14,220 days were lost due to industrial disputes from July to September.
The government, however, has insisted it will not move on the timetable set out in the Lansdowne Road Agreement.
Teachers were due to withdraw from supervision and substitution duties tomorrow, leading to the closure of schools nationwide.
Members reported extreme anger from nurses and midwives in the front line which sparked an appetite for industrial action.
The poll comes as gardaí suspended three further strike days planned for this month.
The government is saying it’s not.
Meanwhile AGSI president Antoinette Cunningham said that if the strike does happen: “Please ring the government and tell them that it’s their fault”.
Minister Donohoe reiterated that any public sector pay claims must be settled through the Lansdowne Agreement.
Teachers and gardaí, who are not due to get pay restoration, have slammed the deal.
Ireland can look to the UK and US for signs of what’s to come.
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.
Ibec has warned that the new public sector pay deal could create create “unrealistic wage expectation” in the private sector.
The government has struck a deal with public sector unions this evening.
The exact details are still being hammered out.
…and if those rumours of an €800 windfall for public servants are true.
New figures shine a light on the pay gap after the swingeing cuts of 2010.
The Taoiseach has said economic recovery will be a priority in any talks about wage increases.
Pay rates differ depending on the job you do, the skills you have, the responsibility you hold… the list goes on.
Impact said that the move is welcome, and agreed that it should be a gradual process.
Some public (and private) workers woke up today to find no salary in their bank account.
The education sector is again the biggest loser in the earnings stats for the first quarter.
The master of the National Maternity Hospital today clarified the details of her pay, saying that she never received additional payments from any source.
A new poll in the Irish Sun shows widespread dissatisfaction with the political establishment.
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.
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.
The final report of the public sector pay deal’s implementation body has outlined the savings it achieved.
The Association of Higher and Civil Public Servants has voted 64 to 36 per cent to back the agreement.
The deal marks the first time that Gardaí had been given a direct role in negotiating their own pay terms.
Backing from the country’s largest union should secure ratification of the new public sector reform deal.
The union says the new proposals don’t address its concerns about the broader economic effect of public pay cuts.