Public Pay Talks - see mod warning post 4293

I thought this thread was about Pay Talks and not Pensions??

The original post said 30 years of service so I should have done 30-60. That change actually significantly increases the monthly contributions via the pension authority calculator.

I’m not sure the calculator is necessarily great and assume 0% growth of the fund (does it?) but the original poster was saying to get an equivalent pension in the private sector was something like 150e a month when you consider employer contributions etc. That seems wildly wildly off.

The person he’s replying too clearly just winding people up tho ignoring the state pension when calculating the 1.8 million pot.

What happened about the strike ballot wording meeting planned for yday?

I agree, the standard of journalism in this country is shockingly poor...pick any half gobshite off the street and ask them to write that and fact check it and they should come up with sn accurate article

It's either they are complete gibbering drooling idiots or its deliberate to provoke outrage/get clicks etc

I think its the latter and its the lowest form of scumbaggery in that occupation imo...sowing division with lies/misdirection and mistruths fir a couple of grubby clicks...

I used to think it was probably expertise was draining out of it now I think its integrity....they are more than ever incentivised to lie ...

There was a time when the readership in the main wanted accuracy and that was on the whole the best way to go about it...now it's provoke a reaction, sow division etc

If someone wants a pension of 30k (on top of the12k State), Zurich's calculator says you need to put in 1,700 a month.

There's one simple thing to remember here. The government in the budget decided without any negotiations to give unemployed people a €12 a week increase. That's about 5.5% increase on 1st January 2024.

After negotiating with Unions and their first offer to public servants was immediately rejected, the government made a second offer. This was a €5 a week increase to the lowest paid public servants. The lowest paid. So I people who do the worst jobs in the public sector are Worth half what the deadbeat scrotes on the dole are worth. When businesses are crying out for staff and these people refuse to work. The government gives them €12 a week tax free and they offer an "improved" €5 a week subject to tax to the lowest paid people they themselves employee.

And Paschal Donoghue has the cheek and the audacity to tell Unions that they need to consider the significant" offer made by government. Jesus, I'd love a FG election candidate to call to my door.

Now, what does that tell you about about respect the government has for their own workers?! The Unions need to ballot ASAP and strike at the earliest opportunity.

The 120k People claiming unemployment benefit don't want to work. There was 150k people at the height of the celtic tiger who refused to work.

And instead of the dole being cut and motivate these people, it's increased constantly. That money should be redirected to carers who do phenomenal work and are totally undervalued. To the disabled, deaf and people with physical and mental disabilities.

The issue is you have the likes of VDP etc al pleading that the unemployed need increased dole payments.

Does that mean we should continue to pay €232 a week to 120,000 people and give them Christmas bonuses??? That costs the tax payers of this country €1.45 billion.

I'd sooner give the lowest paid public servants a Christmas bonus instead.