In todays Budget 2010, Brian Lenihan announced Public Sector pay Cuts.
Check out our Budget calculator for details of the pay cuts and how they will affect you.
The Budget calculator will be updated after the budget annoucement this evening.
The pay cuts as apply to most Public Sector employees are as follows:
For salaries of Great than €125,ooo, different rates are applied from an 8% flat rate up to a special Taoieach rate of 20%.
What do you think of these Changes?
My salary is down 20% off gross taking into account the 2009 and 2010 budgets. My essential spending is static eg:- mortage etc.
My capital spending will be nil in 2010 and for the years into the future. This affects the private sector more than they realise.
The government are a disgrace. I will vote with my feet. The Governments 15% reduction includes the voluntary 10% from last budget – this is less than my contributions. Semi state workers and many private sector workers have not been affected. – The majority of the Public approve of the budget – it doesn’t affect them badly.
We still have to look at the cost of the public service, both those currently employed and those retired and the huge pensions they are drawing. Cowen with his “pay cut” is still out of sink with the English prime Minister still earling less.
The “top end ” are still not seeing the picture
We are a country of 4 million people
For Gods Sake
1) Cut the saleries over 150,000 by a further 30%
2) Reduce the ministers to 100
3) Get rid of the Jets, Cars, and unwarranted expense accounts.
4) stop the 16 day “sick leave”
5) stop the double pensions
These are just the simple ones but will show everyone that the country is not “Animal Farm”
4 legs ( us private sector) good, 2 legs ( Public sector) better !!!!!