Pay commission engagement continues
by Bernard Harbor
IMPACT and other public service unions are continuing to engage with the Public Service Pay Commission. The commission has been charged with giving inputs to Government and unions on how ‘FEMPI’ laws, which introduced pay cuts and the pension levy, can be unwound.
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New civil service travel rates due
by Niall Shanahan
Revised motor travel and subsistence rates for civil servants are expected to be announced shortly. Unions and management are close to reaching agreement on new rates after an adjudication on a new system to calculate the rates concluded last December.
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Career average pension scheme gains
by Bernard Harbor
Unions have achieved two important clarifications to ‘career average’ pension arrangements, which were introduced for staff who joined the public service from 2013. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has agreed that members of the career average single scheme who are – or who have been – sick and in receipt of half pay will accrue pension benefits on a full pay basis.
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Tánaiste urged to act on gender pay gap
by Lughan Deane
IMPACT has written to Tánaiste and equality minister Frances Fitzgerald seeking new laws to require employers to reveal the gender pay gap in their organisations. The call comes after similar legislation was published in the UK, where it is set to come into effect in April.
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IMPACT supports Tesco workers
by Lughan Deane
IMPACT activists joined pickets outside Tesco’s Baggot Street and Drumcondra stores in Dublin last week after workers in 16 shops across the country took strike action over their employer’s attempt to downgrade conditions for staff hired before 1996. IMPACT deputy general secretary Kevin Callinan has urged members to give “practical support” to the workers by ‘shopping with their conscience’ and not passing Tesco pickets.
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Unions seek minimum wage increase
by Niall Shanahan
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has called for a substantial increase in the hourly rate of the national minimum wage to align it more closely with a living wage – the amount estimated as necessary to cover basic living costs. The minimum wage is currently set at €9.25 an hour, while the living wage has been estimated at €11.50.
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