Annual leave limits negotiated

Ireland

The IMPACT public services trade union reports that negotiations have resulted in limits to annual leave but unions have managed to protect the entitlement of public sector workers. Local authority employers had drawn up plans to make drastic cuts in leave but the latest proposal means that workers with between 23 and 32 days’ leave should be protected. New entrants will have a 30-day maximum. It will be mainly senior staff who are affected with some seeing entitlement of 40 days cut back to 32.
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