Workplace Report September 2022
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Irish public sector pay talks resume
Irish unions and government have restarted negotiations on public sector pay after they were paused in mid-June. In March this year, the unions used a review clause in the two-year agreement they signed in December 2020 to begin negotiations on higher pay. The two-year deal provided for two 1.0% increases to be paid in October 2021 and October 2022. However, while the most recent available inflation figure when the deal was signed showed prices falling by 1.1% (November 2020), the comparable figures when the review process began showed prices rising by 5.6% (February 2022).
They are now going up by 9.1% (July). Kevin Callinan, president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and general secretary of the largest public sector union, Fórsa, has said that what the unions want is to “close the gap between an inflation rate of near 11% ... and what the government offered”.
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