S
You could have fooled me
Correct me if im wrong but were not all PS jobs advertised publicly when such vacancies arose with all conditions attached.
If YOU did not wish to apply for such jobs and instead decided to stick to the private sector perhaps charging Euro 2 per brick laid or Euro 10 per lenght of copper pipe bent them I suggest you backed the wrong horse my friend.
Perhaps you should look at where you got it wrong before suggesting how those who took the steady but dependable path should suffer .
Perhaps you should look at where you got it wrong before suggesting how those who took the steady but dependable path should suffer .
I have worked in both public sector and private sector. When I worked in the public sector in the dark days of the 1980s and 1990s my salary was a pittance beside that of my private sector equivalents - all professionals like me. But I couldn't afford to buy a house - they bought large houses in nice suburbs, I got a 10 year old banger - they had brand new cars. I continued to work at the job because I believed in it.
'Suffer'-The private sector creates the wealth that pays most of the taxes. The pay and pension bill for the PS is horrendous in this country.
If PS want pensions pay your own in full and stop whinging. Frankly, most PS wouldn't last long in the private sector as the culture is one of customer service, hard work, common sense. The public service is challenged even in answering the phones.
Wages in the public sector are higher than wages in the private sector. This was the case before the boom and during the boom the gap got bigger, not smaller. If you look at the total value of the package (pension, working hours, sick-pay, etc) then the gap gets bigger again.On topic, as other posters have said, public sector jobs were open to everyone. Some people opted for the high salary but higher risk private sector jobs. Others spent many many years in poorly paid public service jobs with a guaranteed pension and lump sum at the end. If people want these terms and conditions changed going forward that's one thing. To tell someone at the end of their career that you're now going to change something important that formed part of their risk calculation is a separate thing and would be very unfair in my view.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?