Impact warns of job losses if savings not made

One of the country’s largest public service unions has warned the Government will be free to impose compulsory redundancies and longer working hours across the sector if fresh negotiations do not yield the required payroll savings.

Impact laid out three possible options now open to the Government for saving €300m this year and €1bn over the next three years from the public sector pay bill.

In a circular to its members, it said those options are: