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16/05/2008
Executive To Pick Up Tab For Back Pay Settlement
Women workers and Catholics figure most in a group of lower paid civil servants in Northern Ireland who are set to receive over £100m in back pay.
The move revealed this week by NI Finance Minister Peter Robinson, is to redress inequality.
Around 9,000 civil servants in the lowest grades, two-thirds of them women, are to receive the back-pay following concerns in the Stormont power-sharing executive.
Also, over 60% of the civil servants employed at the AA and AO grades involved are from a Catholic background.
The plan to give the civil servants six years of back-pay was revealed yesterday in a written reply to a question in the Northern Ireland Assembly from Democratic Unionist MLA Simon Hamilton.
It means that even people who have retired from the civil service over the last six years will be entitled to the back-pay, which could be up to £20,000.
Civil servants working in the roads service and vehicle testing centres will be among those who will benefit from the payouts once negotiations with the trade unions are completed.
(BMcC)
The move revealed this week by NI Finance Minister Peter Robinson, is to redress inequality.
Around 9,000 civil servants in the lowest grades, two-thirds of them women, are to receive the back-pay following concerns in the Stormont power-sharing executive.
Also, over 60% of the civil servants employed at the AA and AO grades involved are from a Catholic background.
The plan to give the civil servants six years of back-pay was revealed yesterday in a written reply to a question in the Northern Ireland Assembly from Democratic Unionist MLA Simon Hamilton.
It means that even people who have retired from the civil service over the last six years will be entitled to the back-pay, which could be up to £20,000.
Civil servants working in the roads service and vehicle testing centres will be among those who will benefit from the payouts once negotiations with the trade unions are completed.
(BMcC)
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