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Fri 11 Nov 2009Public-sector pay out of line 'before benchmarking'
THE PAY premium Irish public servants enjoyed over their private-sector counterparts was higher than that in other EU countries even before the first round of benchmarking came into effect, a leading economist has claimed.
Jim O’Leary of NUI Maynooth said the basis for his view came from two studies of public-sector earnings by the ESRI, which showed the pay gap between the public and private sectors risingfrom 10 per cent in 2003 to 22 per cent in 2006.
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