Public servants are to seek a shorter working week and the abolition of extra hours agreed during the financial crisis, in a move the Government estimates would cost more than €600 million.
Before Easter, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe warned his Cabinet colleagues about the need to control spending. He has scheduled a series of bilateral meetings with Ministers in an attempt to rein in expenditure and hold departments to their budgets.
In a bulletin to members ahead of a conference of civil servants and local authority staff this week, Fórsa general secretary Kevin Callinan said the longer hours affected mainly those on low and middle incomes and, in particular, women working in the public service.Mr Callinan said the increased working hours were agreed when the country was experiencing “torrid times”.
“And, however justifiable increased working time may have been during the crisis, it goes against the prevailing grain of efforts to better balance work and family responsibilities.” Mr Callinan said Fórsa conferences of workers in health, local government and the civil service would this month “adopt policies calling for the restoration of the time lost by those on low or middle incomes during the crisis”.
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