Because they're worth it - "Central Bank staff in line for extra five days' holidays"

[DCon]

Lovely, just lovely.

TOP staff at the Central Bank could soon be getting up to five extra days holidays under a new "performance management scheme" hammered out by the Bank and trade union Unite in recent days.

The proposals also provide for "cash benefits" to be paid in lieu of some of the extra holidays though sources stressed that this was "highly unlikely" in the short-term.

Other elements of the agreement, which has yet to be ratified by union members, include:

extra pay rises for staff who get promoted and migrate from a 32.5 hour working week to 35 hour working week.

the phasing down of flexi-days over two years for some staff and the elimination of flexi-leave for some new staff.

allowances of up to €250 for staff who undertake "approved professional development" training.

A spokesman for the bank last night stressed that the measures in the agreement were consistent with a deal agreed under the Labour Court last July.

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...s-2665094.html

[Fing Fers]

Wont be long before politicians up their wages, give it time. Handy number in Central bank, f up the economy, only work 35 hours a week, get a pay rise and take an extra 5 days holidays per year.

[Richardbouvet]

I would not have a huge problem with those conditions for ordinary staff. They did not cause the mess we are in. Unite seem like a decent union unlike the useless crowd I have to join.

Most days, I get off the bus outside the Central Bank. They seem to have a very nice breakfast place with a door on the plaza. i would be extremely handy for me. I wonder would they comsider opening it to the public?

[TotalMayhem]

I would not have a huge problem with those conditions for ordinary staff. They did not cause the mess we are in.

Yes, they did. The machine cannot work without the very last cog wheel running smoothly.

"I was only following orders" didn't work in Nuremberg and it should not be an acceptable excuse for criminal negligence today.

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

The nomenklatura making sure that there is a division between the public service and the private sector worker again.

The joke will be on the public sector workers who are grinning now because as soon as the government has taxed the private sector PAYE worker and destroyed any conditions they have they will turn on the public sector and use the lack of support in the wider community for the PS workers to destroy their terms and working conditions.

Croke Park and the rest will go straight out the window and these eejits don't even see it coming because they are too busy thinking that they are being protected.

[Baron von Biffo]

Baron,

Sincere apologies. I edited your post instead of quoting it as I wanted to reply to you.

This was completely unintentional as I like these debates we have.

Can you please re-post?

DCon

[Baron von Biffo]

Baron,

Sincere apologies. I edited your post instead of quoting it as I wanted to reply to you.

This was completely unintentional as I like these debates we have.

Can you please re-post?

DCon

Harrumph! My solicitors will be in touch.

The points I made were that this proposal is being spun by the Indo and yourself as a perk for Central bank staff when the opposite is the case.

It's a non cash bonus scheme worth a maximum of 2% (for no more than 90 staff). It seeks concessions on flexi days from staff, and extra pay for promotions or working extra hours are entirely unremarkable.

It represents a further erosion of conditions for a small area of the PS.

[Baron von Biffo]

Baron,

Sincere apologies. I edited your post instead of quoting it as I wanted to reply to you.

This was completely unintentional as I like these debates we have.

Can you please re-post?

DCon

Did the abbreviated nature of my reposting dampen your enthusiasm for debating this issue?

[bormotello]

Harrumph! My solicitors will be in touch.

The points I made were that this proposal is being spun by the Indo and yourself as a perk for Central bank staff when the opposite is the case.

It's a non cash bonus scheme worth a maximum of 2% (for no more than 90 staff). It seeks concessions on flexi days from staff, and extra pay for promotions or working extra hours are entirely unremarkable.

It represents a further erosion of conditions for a small area of the PS.

BTW, this particular area of PS contributed to ruining of Irish economy more then anybody else, including FF/bankers/developers together