LOWER-PAID public sector workers have had their wages reduced by more than 10% in the past 18 months, the Taoiseach admitted yesterday as his backbench TDs backed down on their opposition to the “unfairness” of the cuts.

LOW-PAID civil servants have become the first to propose strike action over the Government’s decision to introduce a pensions levy across the public service.

WELL-PAID university heads are not shy in making tall orders.

LOW-PAID workers endured a 0.7% pay cut during the last social partnership agreement, a SIPTU economist said yesterday.