THE Government is to be told by the public service that the benchmarking process is a “damaged product” that it will not take part in unless it is radically reformed.

THE trade union movement will meet on February 5/6 to decide whether it will demand the abandonment of the benchmarking process in the wake of Thursday’s pay review which gave nothing to most public sector employees.

THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions Public Services Committee laid the blame for yesterday’s almost non-existent increases for the majority of public sector workers on two key decisions it said were based on a “myth”.