Low-paid Rehab staff face 10% pay cut

Frontline staff at a Rehab subsidiary which is paying nine top-level managers a total of €903,000 a year have been told to accept significant pay cuts to make the division more “competitive”.

Documents seen by the Irish Examiner show that the under-fire charity is attempting to impose the cuts at the National Learning Network, whose frontline staff earn an average of €30,000 a year.

Under the proposals, which Rehab bosses first put forward in February 2013 and resurrected last month, new staff at the network — which provides training and support for people struggling to find work — will come in on pay rates 10% lower than current levels.