Public servants could work longer ‘to avoid cuts’

ONE of the key brokers of the Croke Park deal on public service pay and reform has conceded that public servants could work longer in order to stave off potential pay cuts.

Labour Relations Commission chief executive Kieran Mulvey said a review of the range of public services offered could ensure they are carried out to their full potential. He said it may be found that some services should not be offered at all.

Over the weekend, low paid civil servants, members of the Civil Public and Services Union voted at their annual general conference to withhold co-operation with reforms under the Croke Park Agreement and to strike if their pay was cut again by the Government.