Siptu’s call on Section 39 workers' pay

Siptu says a deal on sleep-over allowances secured with the HSE for the country’s 13,000 Section 39 workers, must pave the way for the same pay restoration for those workers as agreed for the country’s public servants under the latest public service pay deal.

While hundreds of thousands of public servants last week saw a hike in their wages under the new agreement, the workers in Section 39 companies saw no increase.

Section 39 employees are not public servants, but their employers are grant-aided by the HSE to provide services mainly in the health and social services sectors.