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  Helena Deane    Group moderator

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  Unpaid leave central to resumed talks

  Monday, November 30 10:47:04
  
  Unpaid leave for civil servants is understood to be a key element of talks than will resume later today.
  
  Today's talks come after the Government and unions met until 1.30 this morning ahead of next week's Budget in which up to E1.3bn is earmarked in savings on the State wages bill.
  
  According to reports, Government officials are also understood to have put forward new proposals for reforms in the public sector, including greater scope to redeploy staff right across the public sector, the introduction of one additional hour per week for teachers and a review of all existing third-party agreements between management and unions in the health sector.
  
  The unions said last night that the Department of Justice also wanted to put in place new rostering arrangements to minimise the payment of overtime and premium rates at other times.
  
  Informed sources said that public service management also wanted to remove the existing arrangement for staff in the Civil Service to be given time off to cash their pay cheques.
  
  Union sources said that the question of how much the introduction of an unpaid leave arrangement would generate in savings, and also how it would work operationally in different parts of the public sector, were still being examined by the parties.
  
  (Bizworld)
  
  • 30 Nov 2009, 2:13 pm
  Helena Deane wrote: > Monday, November 30 10:47:04 > > Unpaid leave for civil servants is understood to be a key element of > talks than will resume later today. > > Today's talks come after the Government and unions met until 1.30 > this morning ahead of next week's Budget in which up to E1.3bn is > earmarked in savings on the State wages bill. > > According to reports, Government officials are also understood to > have put forward new proposals for reforms in the public sector, > including greater scope to redeploy staff right across the public > sector, the introduction of one additional hour per week for teachers > and a review of all existing third-party agreements between > management and unions in the health sector. > > The unions said last night that the Department of Justice also wanted > to put in place new rostering arrangements to minimise the payment of > overtime and premium rates at other times. > > Informed sources said that public service management also wanted to > remove the existing arrangement for staff in the Civil Service to be > given time off to cash their pay cheques. > > Union sources said that the question of how much the introduction of > an unpaid leave arrangement would generate in savings, and also how > it would work operationally in different parts of the public sector, > were still being examined by the parties. > > (Bizworld)