Public sector pay and conditions [IrishTimes]
- Last Updated: Friday, 13 November 2009 10:27
Madam, – Prof John O’Hagan, (Opinion, November 10th) like many commentators on public service pay, fails to give due regard to the second benchmarking report (2008) when he calls for benchmarking in reverse.
According to this report, the most recent indepth analysis of public service versus private sector pay, “there is little or no public service premium, if comparison is made with private sector employees in large establishments” which the report notes “accounts for a significant majority of public sector workers”. Despite this lack of a premium, “a discount of up to 12 per cent was applied for pension entitlement” and over 300,000 public sector employees did not receive any increase.
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