Cash-strapped local authorities have to find millions of euro from their own resources to restore public servants’ pay.

Unions and Government face a collision course in upcoming negotiations over working hours.

Unions and Government face a collision course in upcoming negotiations over working hours.

THE deal agreed between gardaí and Government over the weekend is another welcome step towards restoring equity in public sector pay. 

Dozens of judges appointed since 2012 are set to receive near €20,000 pay rises over the coming years under new staggered salary hikes plans.

The country could be facing industrial action from gardaí if members of the force are financially penalised for refusing to agree to a pay deal with the Government.

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About 20% of the country’s political representatives are landlords, according to the most recent registry of members interests.

Senior gardaí have said that an additional 200 to 300 garda recruits are needed every year on top of the commitment to take on 600 officers annually.

Only a year after the Lansdowne Road Agreement, pay for civil and public servants is back on the agenda. Bernard Harbor looks at the issues involved.

The public sector is demanding its pound of flesh for recession

Family, friends and politicians bade a final farewell to PJ Mara yesterday as the former government press secretary was laid to rest in Co Galway.

Government and Garda bosses face the prospect of losing up to 380,000 policing hours from January 1.

Low-paid public servants could be as much as €2,000 better off by the end of 2017 under a public service deal which was still being negotiated between the Government and trade unions late last night.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said he backs the restoration of public sector pay but only if it does not impact on patients and the taxpayers by taking money from recruitment.

Public sector workers can still improve their performance, while further reforms are needed among services, a top civil servant has said.

Gardaí have suffered so much from pay cuts some are sleeping in cars because they cannot afford to drive home, the annual conference for rank-and-file members has heard.

Unions and management bodies need to come together to discuss the fragmentation of special needs assistant (SNA) posts, according to the Education Minister.

Secondary teachers are to seek a full restoration of pay, as guaranteed in the Haddington Road Agreement.

Teachers should not be expected to provide further extra work in return for any restoration of pay cuts of recent years, delegates at the Teachers’ Union of Ireland congress told their officials.

An external audit of An Garda Síochána will set out a blueprint for the restructuring of policing at a national and local level.

THE teachers’ conferences begin in earnest today and, like more or less any such professional assembly, they will be animated by idealism, commitment to a noble vocation, and a passionate desire to improve our education system.

The Government is examining a joint wage rise and tax relief package for workers as part of a new social partnership deal with employers and trade unions.

The Garda Inspectorate has said "it’s time to retire" the Garda Pulse computer system — saying the force desperately needs an entirely new platform.

The Universal Social Charge is causing “significant hardship” for people, junior finance minister Simon Harris has admitted.

Christmas is coming, but first things first – we are now in Game Season and we should start to see pheasant, partridges and wild ducks appearing in good butchers this month. 

A top HSE official, head of human resources Barry O’Brien, is to leave the organisation in the coming months, it was confirmed last night.

Business and union leaders have urged Taoiseach Enda Kenny to "show leadership" and call together a national forum to hammer out pay and welfare deals as the economy recovers.

A pilot policing scheme in North County Dublin is aiming to dramatically change the way Gardai operate in the community.

A report by the interim administrator into the Central Remedial Clinic has criticised the board of the organisation for rushing into a pay-off deal for retiring Chief Executive Paul Kiely.

Whoever it is, Labour’s 11th leader must unite and rejuvenate the party for the next general election, writes Juno McEnroe.

Health Minister James Reilly, on a breakneck trip to the South-West for a number of pre-election duties yesterday, denied he was being "held back" by Fine Gael strategists because of a perceived lack of popularity.