CLAUSE 1.28 of the Croke Park agreement on public service pay and conditions states: “The implementation of this agreement is subject to no currently unforeseen budgetary deterioration.”
It is time for the Government to snap out of its denial and invoke clause 1.28. The country cannot afford to maintain the Croke Park agreement until 2014, and its inherent unfairness is deeply damaging to society. The agreement is fundamentally flawed on economic and moral grounds.
I note that the Herald is reporting that another , more targetted , voluntary redundancy scheme is going to be introduced by the Government seeking a further 10,000 redundancies over 3 years , further evidence , if any more was needed , that the Government are pursuing every avenue to ensure core pay remains protected.
And that's the problem. The country can't deliver the services it needs at existing core pay rates.further evidence , if any more was needed , that the Government are pursuing every avenue to ensure core pay remains protected.
CLAUSE 1.28 of the Croke Park agreement on public service pay and conditions states: “The implementation of this agreement is subject to no currently unforeseen budgetary deterioration.”
And that's the problem. The country can't deliver the services it needs at existing core pay rates.
But as you have pointed out yourself - PS workers have suffered enough pay cuts - now is the time for job cuts - unless my memory fails me ?
10,000 further voluntary redundancies must surely please you ?
time for voluntary redundancies are long gone....that only hurts services to the public, as good people take the borrowed money and leave.
Time to specifically select the slackers and inept and show them the door....that is if the ps unions are sincere in their public utterances about maintaining services to the highest possible standard
time for voluntary redundancies are long gone....that only hurts services to the public, as good people take the borrowed money and leave.
time to specifically select the slackers and inept and show them the door....that is if the PS unions are sincere in their public utterances about maintaining services to the highest possible standard
time for voluntary redundancies are long gone....that only hurts services to the public, as good people take the borrowed money and leave.
time to specifically select the slackers and inept and show them the door....that is if the PS unions are sincere in their public utterances about maintaining services to the highest possible standard
Yes but a post is not necessarily person-specific in a one-to-one way. If there are many people doing the same job and one (or more) needs to be made redundant (eg only 15 posts required not 20 so 5 posts redundant) - better to let go the under performers?
Deiseblue, what do you mean by 'such redundancies are to be targetted'? Targetted in a posts way (we don't need this post anymore; no-one has applied for voluntary redundancy from this post so we'll remove someone on a last in-first out basis) or in a targetting underperformers way (we need to reduce headcount so we'll target our underperformers)?
The last redundancy package was open to all in order to achieve the required numbers .- basically everyone that applied was accepted - Garda , nurses , firefighters , civil servants , social welfare staff et al .
Under a targetted scheme - the Government & their advisors will decide on the areas that they feel need trimming & offer voluntary redundancies on that basis.
This has proved problematic in the past as such a scheme was rolled out in the HSE & the take up was way lower than the target numbers sought.
and thats what you call targeted!!!! it's Voluntary, no matter how it is dressed up
Targeted means pointing out jobs/people/posts (call it whatever you want) and saying time to go, here's some borrowed Troika cash, good luck....not letting more good people apply for Voluntary redundancy to leave thereby affecting services to the public