Fórsa disputes Government’s claim removing extra hours would cost about €600m a year
Mr Callinan argues this had resulted in a “two-tier problem” because the temporary pay cuts experienced at the same time by higher grades – whose working time did not increase – had been restored, while additional working time for lower and middle earners remained in place.
“But, unlike their higher-paid colleagues, these workers have seen no restoration to pre-crisis working time levels.”and, when the Government sought savings to fill an extra and unexpected €1 billion hole in the public finances, we agreed to talk and [higher-paid] workers reluctantly voted to accept a third hit.
The chairman of Fórsa’s Civil Service division, Niall McGuirk, said civil servants now collectively worked 75,000 more hours each week than in 2013.
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