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Public sector pay: A modest proposal

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    #32
    droidus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭droidus


    Bearing in mind your suggestions that the gender pay gap is a statistcal anomaly, Id like to get back to the OT.

    To summarise:

    There is a (reported) gender pay gap for women.

    This gap is considerably smaller in the public sector than the private sector.

    The public sectors and private sectors should operate based on the same standards.

    => Women's pay in the public sector should be reduced.

    Why not?


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    #33
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,253 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    => All public sector workers should have their salary reviewed by their direct superior based on budgets set by Minister for Finance to ascertain what the employee's salary should be with an eye to the open market for a replacement for that candidate.

    As such, any clerical officer who's receiving remuneration equivalent to 35k per year to do a job someone in the labour market could be found to do for 28k per year gets a 7k salary cut or a P45. A radiographer who's skills can't be found for less than 5k more than their current remuneration package is worth gets a 5k raise. If an employee is deemed to be underperforming to the standard that their position is no longer required, they're shown the door with statutory redundancy (the nation's broke, we can't afford sweetheart 6 weeks per year service deals).


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