Under-performing public servants should be “managed out” of their jobs but good workers who deliver should be rewarded, a top civil servant has said.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has confirmed he is “considering” calls to drastically increase salaries for Ireland’s top public servants — despite insisting he has made no decision on whether to act on the recommendations.

A leading teachers' union has indicated it will seek additional pay benefits, following the Government's recent settlement with nurses.

The general secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI), Kieran Christie, has described Fempi legislation on industrial action by public service unions as “draconian and repugnant.”

Nursing unions are claiming that agencies are paying nurses and midwives 20% above the public sector rate for the same work.

Teachers, university lecturers, and other key public servants will be asked to work until they are 70 in a bid to cut back on spiralling pension costs and to shore up staff gaps in vital frontline services.

Nurses have voted by a huge majority to reject proposals by the Government-appointed Public Service Pay Commission.

After a prolonged campaign, the country’s 13,000 Section 39 workers are to see their pay restored just as it has been reinstated for their counterparts in the HSE.

Public servants working on lower pay scales to their colleagues are to be able to jump increment scales to allow their pay catch up.

The country’s coroners have called for a review of their pay, as the number of cases they have dealt with has risen for a third consecutive year.

The Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has welcomed a report which has found pay is not the main issue affecting the recruitment and retention of staff within the public sector.

€58bn was spent on delivering public services last year, up from €51.8bn in 2016.

Union leaders are optimistic they can reverse pay gaps for public service workers that could potentially benefit up to 60,000 employees.

Unions are today raising concerns over what they say are pay cuts being forced on public-sector staff over the age of 65.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe says new talks need to be opened with the trade union movement to address future challenges facing the economy, such as Brexit.

A REPORT slipped out into the ether of a holiday weekend, last Friday, without fanfare, but whose impact in the long-term will be second only to Brexit, writes Gerard Howlin.

Government and unions to discuss disparity which adversely affects over 60,000 ‘new entrants’ to system

Latest: The calls come after a new government report says it will cost €200million to address pay inequality for new entrants to the public sector.

Cabinet will today sign off on public sector pay increases due to come into force from next month.

Members of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) have today voted to reject the latest public-service pay deal.

There are calls for Ireland's teaching unions to form a united front to resolve the issue of pay equalisation.

The Irish National Teacher's Organisation has rejected reports that it has accepted the terms of the new public service pay agreement.

The Department of Education has saved close to €230m since 2011 by putting new entrants to teaching on lower pay than their colleagues.

Workers who vote to reject the widely accepted new public sector pay deal may be frozen out of pay increases and other benefits and face financial penalties, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has warned.

A vote at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has gone in favour of the new public service pay agreement.

Update 3.23pm: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that he stands by comments that senior civil servants should leave if they are not performing.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has slapped down a controversial suggestion by his junior minister that new and existing teachers should be on equal pay.

76 per cent of members voted to accept the Public Service Stability Agreement.

One of the country’s largest unions has voted to accept the new public service pay deal, but has warned that it expects discussions aimed at ending the two-tier pay scales currently imposed upon its members.

One of the country's largest public sector unions is backing the Lansdowne Road 2 pay deal.

A new campaign is being launched today to encourage public sector workers to vote against ‘Lansdowne Road II’.

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors is to get legal advice on the draft public sector pay deal.

Whilst very many of us who reside in the volatile private sector are concerned, even angry, at the pay deal terms offered to the public sector, it is definitely not the time to be playing Russian Roulette with our future.

Impact, the largest public service union in the country, has recommended acceptance of the new public service pay agreement.

The IMPACT union's Central Executive Committee has unanimously recommended that its members accept the Public Service Stability Agreement.

The union representing higher public servants has decided not to make a recommendation to members on the public sector pay deal.

The Minister for Expenditure and Reform says the new Lansdowne Road Extension is a good deal that makes sense for the whole country.

Public sector workers who reject the new €880m Lansdowne Road pay agreement will miss out on pay increases contained in the deal, unions leaders are being warned.

Economists such as John Fitzgerald have correctly questioned the merit of returning to pre-crash pay levels in the first place, the political system here seems intent on capitulation on that point, writes Daniel McConnell.

There is growing criticism of the new public sector pay deal.

The new public pay deal will buy the Government another three years of industrial peace. But the pacification of around 300,000 workers in the public sector has come at a cost, and a rather hefty one at that, says Elaine Loughlin.

The Government and public service unions have reached a draft agreement on a pay deal to succeed the Lansdowne Road Agreement.

The outsourcing of public services, pay restoration, and how much the State’s employees should contribute to their pensions were among the crunch issues still to be resolved as the public sector pay talks continued late last night.

Public sector pay talks broke up around 11pm last night and will resume at 2.30pm today as last-minute efforts to strike a deal intensified and entered a make or break phase.

After two weeks of negotiation with little progress, talks between the Government and trade unions on a new public sector pay deal will intensify hugely over the next 48 hours.

After two weeks of negotiation with little progress, talks between the Government and trade unions on a new public sector pay deal will intensify hugely over the next 48 hours.

A new pay deal is likely to be spread over three years because fiscal constraints means it will take longer to restore the cuts imposed on public sector workers under the Government’s emergency financial measures.

Public sector wage increases and the jobs boom in construction may be driving an outsized increase in pay and earnings, the latest official figures suggest.

The thorny issues of pension contributions and restoration of pre-financial crisis hours formed the basis of the latest installment of talks between the Government and unions on a new public service pay deal.

The union representing low-paid civil servants has rejected the Government’s efficiencies “wishlist” outlined in the ongoing pay talks and warns there can be no further productivity deals.