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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.

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Martin Wall

Martin Wall

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