National agreement includes 10% pay increase over 27 months

Ireland

The pay element of the national agreement between the Irish social partners has been finalised with workers set to get a 10% pay increase over the next 27 months. Public servants and staff in non-commercial semi-state bodies will get 3% on 1 December 2006, 2% on 1 June 2007, 2.5% on 1 March 2008 and 2.5% on 1 September 2008. Lower paid workers (those on €10.25 an hour or less) will get an extra 0.5%. As before, workers and unions must co-operate with modernisation and change measures to qualify for the increases.
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