Chamber's 'freeze on jobs' call

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Chamber's 'freeze on jobs' call



THE Dublin Chamber of Commerce yesterday called for an immediate employment embargo in the public sector to prevent the public service pay bill from reaching what it termed 'uncontrollable' levels.


The Chamber wants a bar on filling two out of every three vacancies in the public service, and it wants this supported by a programme to increase mobility of personnel across government departments and agencies.


The new mobility proposal should be introduced in tandem with the benchmarking payments, it said.


The Chamber also called for a firm commitment that there will be no roll back on the tax reductions introduced over the last five years.


It is also demanding that reductions in the Corporation Tax rate continue.




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The annoying thing about this is that a blanket emabargo (ie a numbers game) generally results in the administrative (graded civil service/paper pushing ) staff minimising job losses in in their own sector. IE the public service loses professional/technical/scientific staff..
We are just getting over the loss of expertise from the mid/late 80's...
randomn quote from dail 1988 (closure of teagasc rearch centers)



Mr. M. Higgins: ——approximately 40,000 fewer farm families living off the land than we had before our entry. At the same time, there has been growth in particular sections of the agricultural sector.

What is at stake, in terms of the legislation in the broadest sense, is the question whether the new agency first, will be adequately funded and, secondly, will have within its structure a sufficient research corps and advisory dissemination possibility as to be able to address the widest possible number of farmers who might want to make a living from the land.


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There is the other element of the effect of the legislation on farm incomes. It seems, for example, that given the reaction to the proposals so far and looking at the pattern of redundancies, many people who are in possession of special skills are leaving the semi-State or State sector in which they found themselves and now preparing to set up in consultancy services to sell their services [2593] back to a section of the farm population which they previously served. There is no doubt that the purchase of these services makes economic sense for those in a position to purchase skills which have been developed over a very long period of time and often in the research setting created, purchased and developed by the State..

In quite a few instances they f**ked off abroad.


anyway teagasc (aft) suffered a 20% approx cutback, the cc sufferes a 4% cutback...
and people still wonder why there isn't sufficient data on agricultural/envorinmental issues...

anyway i hope you get my point..a blunt freeze won't work...