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This morning.

Leinster House, Dublin 2.

People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy at the launch of his party’s National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2021, which would remove the discrimination against 16-20 year olds who do not earn the same rate of the minimum wage as those older than them.

Don’t know they’re born.

Harrumph.

Leah Farrell/RollingNews

 

HSE CEO Paul Reid

This morning.

Via Independent.ie:

HSE chief Paul Reid’s remuneration package topped €426,000 last year, including €358,651 in salary.

Mr Reid, who began a five-year contract in May 2019, and has become one of the country’s most recognisable faces during the pandemic, received €48,416 allowances on top of his salary. He has a benefit in kind of €19,141 to cover his company car, according to the HSE’s annual report.

HSE chief Paul Reid’s pay package tops €426,000 – more than twice Taoiseach’s wage (Independent.ie)

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Robert Watt

This afternoon.

Hmm.

There must be a catch.

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 Jack Chambers, Government Chief Whip and Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs and Sport; Sinn Féin TD Padraig Mac Lochlainn

This morning/afternoon.

Via Irish Times:

The Cabinet has approved an increased allowance for the party whips including an increase from €10,000 to €19,000 for the Sinn Féin whip Pádraig Mac Lochlainn. Sources confirmed that the assistant Sinn Féin whip will receive an increase from €5,000 to €9,500.

The Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil whips will receive €10,000 while the Green Party, Solidarity, Labour and Social Democrats whips will receive a €6,000 allowance.

Sources have also confirmed that a new system of extra payments for the three “super junior” ministers sitting at the Cabinet table will commence on Tuesday. They will share €32,000 worth of allowances between them – rather than getting a €16,000 allowance each.

[Jack Chambers, Hildegarde Naughton and Pippa Hackett have ‘waived’ this increased allowance, according to a Government spokesperson]

Cabinet approves plans to increase pay for judiciary (Irish Times)

Meanwhile…

Whip it back so.

Today.

Some 1,000 school secretaries will hold a one-day strike as part of an ongoing campaign against a controversial two-tier pay system.

Trade union Fórsa writes:

“Today’s nationwide strike action by school secretaries represented by Fórsa trade union is to be followed by a resumption of their work to rule, which was suspended in October 2019 in order to facilitate discussions at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).

The dispute is over the continuing two-tier pay system that leaves most school secretaries earning just €12,500 a year, with irregular, short-term contracts that force them to sign on during the summer holidays and other school breaks.

Fórsa represents more than half of the estimated 2,000 school secretaries employed directly by their school’s board of management and paid from the school’s ancillary grant.

Most of the remaining estimated 1,000 school secretaries are employed directly through the Education and Training Boards (ETBs), while a very small number, who were hired before 1978, are directly employed by the Department of Education.

The vast majority of school secretaries working in Ireland are women.

The decision to take strike action and resume the work to rule followed what the union described as an ‘insulting and derisory’ offer of 1.5% at the WRC last December.

Talks have been taking place since October.

The resumed work to rule action will mean that school secretaries will withdraw from work on public service systems and databases.

They will also refuse to carry out the functions of public servants.

This is because they have repeatedly been refused public service pay and conditions over the last four decades.”

School secretaries strike for pay fairness (Fórsa)

Pic: Gina_ius

This morning.

Frontline Defence News Ireland tweetz:

I am a sailor [with the Irish Naval Service]. I work four weeks at sea, two weeks ashore. When I am ashore, I live on my ship and perform 3 x 24hr duties also. I get €24 per day at sea this month. I will do 10 x 24hr duties at a minimum. I am suffering from burnout…

Meanwhile…

Anyone?

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RTÉ studios in Donnybrook, Dublin 4

Mark Tighe, in yesterday’s Sunday Times, reported:

Almost three-quarters of those who earn salaries of more than €100,000 a year in RTE are men, according to figures obtained by The Sunday Times. By contrast, well over half of RTE staff paid less than €40,000 are women.

…This has now been confirmed in figures supplied after a freedom of information request to the station.

They cover basic salary of staff members, and not contractors, overtime or allowances.

The figures show that, while women made up 48.3% of RTE’s 1,984 staff at the end of 2016, they accounted for just 29.6% of the 125 workers whose basic annual salary was more than €100,000.

RTE cheques in the male (Mark Tighe, The Sunday Times)

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A breakdown by Vanity Fair of the take-home pay earned by the hypothetical cast and crew (excluding non-human costs, and based on average union rates) of a hypothetical 200 million dollar Hollywood movie. To wit:

Moviemaking is an art, of course—but it’s also a business, and a lucrative one at that. How lucrative? Well, that depends on your place in the pecking order. Let’s just say that if you’re helping to make a $200 million movie, it’s better to be a producer than a dolly grip operator—although as you’ll learn in this video breakdown of who’s earning what, based on average union rates, even the gaffer makes out pretty well.

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