INMO: Nurses on €35k face 8% cut in Croke Park II

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has claimed frontline public servants earning €35,000 will lose 8% of their pay as a result of the Croke Park II proposals — but no other public servants earning less than €80,000 will lose nearly as much.

INMO: Nurses on €35k face 8% cut in Croke Park II

Dave Hughes, deputy general secretary, was speaking just hours after the Labour Relations Commission issued a series of proposals designed to cut €1bn from the public sector pay bill.

The menu of cuts includes a reduction in premium payments, cuts for higher-paid staff, a longer working week, and reductions in overtime. Compulsory redundancies can also be sought in certain cases if staff will not redeploy or accept voluntary redundancy.

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