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Irish public sector take 13% pay cut
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostIndeed, but look at this example from one of the respondents;
I'm currently training to be a speech and language therapist. I guess Libby thinks I will be a bit greedy with my starting salary of £20,710 at the end of my four year degree course. Does she really think that this should be cut to £18.018, putting me in the bottom 2% in terms of graduate pay? How satisfying to be entering such a valued profession.
Is 18000 pounds per year really such a low income for someone who is probably 22 years old, has only just qualified and has virtually no experience? I really don’t think so.McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostWell he does do a more socially useful job than you.
Public sector jobs are sometimes more productive than private sector ones.
HTH
Not the ones I've seen matey..."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View PostIt does appear that the people at the top % of wage earners haven't dropped a penny in salary while those at the bottom are told they must do it. I ask, has a single politician come forward and asked for a reduction of their salary?Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostHave the Irish government set a good example for others to follow, in just getting people to ‘bite the bullet’ and accept cuts?
It needs the Irish members of the forum to provide greater insight than I have but it seems to me that Ireland's recent prosperity is very recent, and the people living there can remember what it was like to live in the economic doldrums and are therefore in a better position to accept a reality check than people in the UK will.
I don't think that the people in the UK will accept that reality check until it is forced upon them.Comment
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Originally posted by Gonzo View PostIreland is a very different place to the UK.
It needs the Irish members of the forum to provide greater insight than I have but it seems to me that Ireland's recent prosperity is very recent, and the people living there can remember what it was like to live in the economic doldrums and are therefore in a better position to accept a reality check than people in the UK will.
I don't think that the people in the UK will accept that reality check until it is forced upon them.
One thing is for sure, people have long memories at home, we had a hard time for a long time and it's back againBazza gets caught
Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
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Public sector workers will get a pay rise. They form the major element of a Labour party vote bank and as long as Labour are in power public sector will get nice wages, great pensions and other perks.
If the govt cannot borrow anymore and has to seek IMF help we can hope of some sort of public sector cull. Beware of posters like DimPrawn who will interject here and explain that a public sector cull will result in a massive recession. That will not be the case and those massively over paid workers will be forced to take up jobs in the private sector and contribute something to the economy.Vote Corbyn ! Save this country !Comment
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Ireland has very little manufacturing, not a great deal of tourism and a bit of a service sector. The crash was always going to be hard.
I'm just pissed off that when my clan left they came to the 'just a wee bit better' place.Comment
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Originally posted by fullyautomatix View PostPublic sector workers will get a pay rise. They form the major element of a Labour party vote bank and as long as Labour are in power public sector will get nice wages, great pensions and other perks.
If the govt cannot borrow anymore and has to seek IMF help we can hope of some sort of public sector cull. Beware of posters like DimPrawn who will interject here and explain that a public sector cull will result in a massive recession. That will not be the case and those massively over paid workers will be forced to take up jobs in the private sector and contribute something to the economy.
Most jobs in UK have been created by the public sector particularly in places in the NE."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by fullyautomatix View PostIf the govt cannot borrow anymore and has to seek IMF help we can hope of some sort of public sector cull.
My concern is that it will take something that drastic before the UK will finally act.Comment
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