18/05/2017
ICTU Invited To Public Service Pay Talks
The Public Services Committee of ICTU have been invited to a discussion on public service pay and a continued approach to the unwinding of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) legislation.
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe, also sent a similar invitation to the Garda and Defence Forces' Associations.
The Programme for a Partnership Government committed the Government to establish a Public Service Pay Commission to examine pay levels across the public service. For its initial report, the Commission was asked to provide inputs on how the unwinding of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest legislation should proceed. The report was published on 9th May last year.
Minister Donohoe said: "Following consideration of the report by Government, I have now invited the representative organisations for public servants to enter discussions. The purpose of these discussions will be to seek agreement with staff interests on an extension to the Lansdowne Road Agreement (LRA), to provide for an agreed approach to the continued unwinding of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) legislation. This agreement will be sought while securing the productivity gains of the LRA and previous collective agreements. The discussions will also seek to secure and to provide a fair, balanced and sustainable response to the expectations of public servants in the area of pay on the one hand and an economy which is subject to ongoing financial constraints and a number of emerging international risks and challenges, not least of which is Brexit."
The Minister said that he expected all parties to engage constructively and in a realistic way during what will be a complex and difficult negotiation.
He concluded: "Public service collective agreements, and by definition public servants, are widely and correctly recognised as having made a particularly valuable contribution to the State's economic recovery through providing stability, certainty and industrial peace. Thankfully, we are at a point where we can consider and negotiate on modest improvements to current public service pay and conditions, while also recognising that Government must continue to act prudently regarding the management of the national finances."
(MH/CD)
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe, also sent a similar invitation to the Garda and Defence Forces' Associations.
The Programme for a Partnership Government committed the Government to establish a Public Service Pay Commission to examine pay levels across the public service. For its initial report, the Commission was asked to provide inputs on how the unwinding of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest legislation should proceed. The report was published on 9th May last year.
Minister Donohoe said: "Following consideration of the report by Government, I have now invited the representative organisations for public servants to enter discussions. The purpose of these discussions will be to seek agreement with staff interests on an extension to the Lansdowne Road Agreement (LRA), to provide for an agreed approach to the continued unwinding of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) legislation. This agreement will be sought while securing the productivity gains of the LRA and previous collective agreements. The discussions will also seek to secure and to provide a fair, balanced and sustainable response to the expectations of public servants in the area of pay on the one hand and an economy which is subject to ongoing financial constraints and a number of emerging international risks and challenges, not least of which is Brexit."
The Minister said that he expected all parties to engage constructively and in a realistic way during what will be a complex and difficult negotiation.
He concluded: "Public service collective agreements, and by definition public servants, are widely and correctly recognised as having made a particularly valuable contribution to the State's economic recovery through providing stability, certainty and industrial peace. Thankfully, we are at a point where we can consider and negotiate on modest improvements to current public service pay and conditions, while also recognising that Government must continue to act prudently regarding the management of the national finances."
(MH/CD)
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