The Dáil is today set to pass the final stages of the legislation implementing the pension levy on public servants.
The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill, which deals with cost-cutting measures to achieve €2 billion in cutbacks, will come before the House.
The 7.5 per cent pension levy on all public servant is intended to save €1.16 billion this year and €1.35 billion in a full year.
Trade unions have said they will ballot for a one-day national stoppage on March 30th if Government doesn’t engage on a new three year economic stability plan.
The stoppage would affect all of the public sector and large numbers of private sector employers who have not paid the terms of the national wage agreement signed last year or any agreed alternative.
Unions affiliated to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu) are to begin balloting over a three week period beginning on Monday.
The decision to ballot on the stoppage was taken by the Ictu Executive Council as part of a strategy following on from last Saturday’s mass demonstration in Dublin.
Ictu General Secretary David Begg said that the three year stability agreement that it wished to negotiate would be based around its own ten point social solidarity plan.
He said that Congress was not seeking the full abolition of the controversial pension levy but its amelioration to make if fairer for lower paid workers.