IBEC calls for axing of more public sector jobs

THE Government should cut more public sector jobs to help reduce inflation and curb job losses, the head of the employers’ group IBEC said yesterday.

Turlough O’Sullivan said the rising level of job losses would continue unless general price increases were not slowed down.

The unemployment rate is nearing 5% and the rise in the numbers out of work last month was the highest since the late 1980s.