You say that like it's a benefit for staff!Ok. The Public Sector gets 12 days unpaid leave next year. But the Goverment needs to cut spending by €20bn over the next 5 years. With this fudge PS employees will have an extra 60 days off at the end of the process and it still wont cover the shortfall. So there are next years 20% cuts to come from and the next years and next years and the next years?
I don't think the Government will agree to it in the end. They will see what the reaction to the deal is and pull back.
Lenehin getting hammered on the radio this morning so you might be right.
What odds on a leadership challenge to Cowen?
1000/1 - who would want to take over in this climate?
It's a no-win situation at this stage - entirely of their own making but still a no-win situation.
Fianna Fail are going to lose the next election anyway. Lenehin was not part of government prior to 2007 and has been seen as been reasonably capable be many commentators. He is young enough to be leader of the country in 5 years time so might not be a bad thing to go into opposition as leader of Fianna Fail and let the other parties ake the hard decisions.
It would probably be Fianna Fail's best chance of only spending one term in opposition.
Who does this deal benefit?
Who was negotiatiing the deal?
Are they the same people?
This is an absolute joke.
The following years' cuts will now come from the IMF. I would guess around April 2010. The government has shown it is incapable.
Extra holidays for less pay will still upset the majority of them)
PS pensioners and those nearing retirement age.It benefits no one. Uniformly cutting pay would have been a blunt enough solution (as opposed to targetted lay offs and pay cuts) but uniform cuts in hours is ridiculous.
I reckon Cowen just wants the ground to open up and swallow him at this stage. He must be completely out of touch with reality. Non public sector workers will be infuriated as will public sector workers (Extra holidays for less pay will still upset the majority of them)
Unbelievable!! When someone in the Private Sector has their hours reduced do you call it 'extra holidays for less pay'. This just proves that you can put a negative spin on anything.
PS pensioners and those nearing retirement age.
It also disproportionately affects those on lower incomes as they lose a bigger proportion of their tax home pay. It was also highly likely that any pay cuts would have been graduated, having little or no effect on those below 30K.
So who does this deal benefit?
PS Pensioners.
PS employees nearing retirement age.
High paid PS employees.
Everyone else gets screwed.
I really don't understand where you're coming from here.
Unpaid leave does equate to more holidays and less pay.
That's not spin
I don't intend to make it sound better or worse than it is.
I'd use the same phrase if it was my job.
If you think I'm trying to work some angle here you're just being paranoid
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