Public pay talks resume today

Public sector pay talks broke up around 11pm last night and will resume at 2.30pm today as last-minute efforts to strike a deal intensified and entered a make or break phase.

Talks at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) continued late into the night as both Government officials and public sector representatives worked to come up with a deal as time ticks down.

While it had been expected that union representatives would be presented with pay and pension proposals from the management side early yesterday, at 6.30pm, no such package had been put forward as both sides were still trying to reach agreement on non-pay related elements.