Politics

Civil servants to seek pay increase in Government talks

The Civil Public and Services Union wants flat rate increase for lower-paid workers

Eoin Ronayne, general secretary of the Civil Public and Services Union (CPSU). The CPSU said they are to seek a flat rate pay increase for lower-paid civil servants during forthcoming talks with the Government. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Eoin Ronayne, general secretary of the Civil Public and Services Union (CPSU). The CPSU said they are to seek a flat rate pay increase for lower-paid civil servants during forthcoming talks with the Government. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Martin Wall
Tue Mar 03 2015 - 15:29

Lower-paid civil servants are to seek a flat rate increase in pay as part of forthcoming talks with the Government.

The Civil Public and Services Union (CPSU) said traditional percentage awards discriminated in favour of the higher-paid.

The union, which represents about 13,000 lower-paid staff in the civil service, has not put a figure on the flat rate increase it wants.

CPSU general secretary Eoin Ronayne said any sense of morality dictated that lower -paid workers should do best from any restoration of pay and conditions arising from the forthcoming talks.

Martin Wall

Martin Wall

Martin Wall is the Public Policy Correspondent of The Irish Times.