Public servants are right to want to see their pay recover
WITH public service pay back in the news less than a year after the Lansdowne Road deal was done, policymakers, commentators, and union officials could usefully consult the 2015 Civil Service Engagement Survey, which was published to little fanfare earlier this year.
They won’t be surprised that, when asked, half our civil servants said they consider themselves underpaid compared to others who do similar work. It’s a subjective view, rather than the outcome of real pay comparisons, and a similar study of workers in virtually any sector of the economy would probably yield similar results.
