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350,000 government employees are expected to receive general salary increases of 2% during the term of the new two-year public service agreement, with the potential of an additional 1% under the new sectoral bargaining agreements.
Under the two-year agreement titled “Building Momentum – A New Public Service Agreement 2021-2022”, government employees will also see a return to 2013 premium and overtime rates and a mechanism for the eventual return of unpaid overtime imposed on Haddington Road. Agreement.
The new agreement also includes steps to address pay inequality for recruits in teaching after 2011.
It will succeed the current Public Service Stability Agreement that expires on December 31, but must be ratified by the unions.
The document confirms that workers will obtain a general round increase of 1% of gross salary or € 500 per year, whichever is greater, on October 1, 2021.
This means that those with the lowest incomes will receive a higher percentage increase than the highest paid staff.
A second similar increase will be paid a year later, on October 1, 2022.
The agreement also provides for the equivalent of a 1% increase in annualized salaries through a Sector Negotiation Fund on February 1, 2022.
This Fund will initially be worth 1% of the basic pensionable pay during the term of the new agreement.
It aims to address pending awards, recommendations, awards, and claims, with the option for groups to use the available allocation as a sectoral pay round.
However, to take advantage of the Sectoral Bargaining Fund, unions must maintain labor peace and comply with a new dispute resolution process.
The agreement also contains reform proposals through changes in technology and work practices, including enabling temporary reassignments when necessary and increasing the turnover of personnel throughout the public service.
An implementation plan and a reporting plan are also envisaged to verify the implementation of the agreed reforms, including through sectoral action plans.
Regarding the reform, the parties commit to “harness this momentum to meet the immediate challenges of 2021 and 2022, including the continued response to Covid-19, a return to normal health service provision, ensuring that schools remain open and addressing the challenges that arose for the children. ” during the crisis, managing the Brexit response, establishing the public service as the engine of best practices on remote work and addressing digitization. ”
Certain outstanding issues from the austerity-era cuts in the 2013 Haddington Road Accord must be “addressed and implemented,” including unpaid overtime imposed by the HRA.
An independent body will be established in late March 2021 to make recommendations to begin the process back to the hours before Haddington Road, with € 150 million available to begin implementation of the outcome during 2022.
The agreement also provides for a successor agreement to participate in the implementation of additional recommendations.
The thorny issue of wage inequality for teachers hired since January 2011 will be addressed by moving them from point 11 to point 13 on their pay scale, or raising them one more point.
Overtime and premium payments are being restored to pre-2013 levels.
On outsourcing, the agreement preserves the existing safeguards on any proposed outsourcing of the provision of public services.
In a statement, the Public Services Committee of the Irish Trade Union Congress said the new agreement represents “a positive short-term package, negotiated in a difficult context, to build on the momentum of the recent wage restoration and flexibility and service of the public service. quality. “
Each of the ICTU-affiliated public service unions, representing more than 90% of public servants, will now give the proposals detailed consideration before presenting the package to their members.
The unaffiliated representative bodies of the Gardai and Defense Forces, together with the Association of Psychiatric Nurses, the Irish Association of Hospital Consultants and the Irish Association of Dentists have been negotiating through a separate branch.
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