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Public servants working in the education sector are due a 1% pay increase with effect from 1st January 2018, under the Public Service Stability Agreement (PSSA) negotiated by Fórsa and other public service unions. The PSSA will deliver income restoration worth over 7% of salary to more than 70% of public servants between now and 2020.
The final piece of the Fórsa jigsaw was put in place on 2nd January, when the Registrar for Friendly Societies confirmed that the new union was registered and cleared to start work on behalf of more than 80,000 members.
Public servants who want to revert to ‘pre-Haddington Road’ working hours – with a pro-rata salary reduction – can apply to do so between now and April 2018.
Fórsa has secured the terms and working conditions of members working in the institutes of technology sector as the Technological Universities Bill gets set to combine the strength of the institutes of technology across the country, in order to develop top class technological universities.
Deputy general secretary Kevin Callinan has written to officials at the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to demand progress on the regularisation of terms and conditions for staff in the School Completion Programme (SCP).
