Civil service gets pounds 150m dispute pay; STORMONT.Byline: MICHAEL MCHUGH Michael Hudson McHugh, AC QC, (born 1935) is a former justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. Judicial Activity AROUND pounds 150million is to be offered to civil servants in a deal to settle a long-running pay dispute, it was revealed yesterday. Up to 13,000 low paid and mainly female staff would benefit from the back pay and an annual increase in salaries costing the Civil Service between pounds 20million and pounds 25million a year, Stormont sources said. The Executive has approved the offer. Public service union Nipsa is expected to put the deal to a ballot of members. It would pre-empt more than 5,000 pay claims pending with industrial tribunals. SDLP SDLP (in Northern Ireland) Social Democratic and Labour Party SDLP (Brit) n abbr (Pol) (= Social Democratic and Labour Party) → sozialdemokratische Partei in Nordirland finance spokesman Declan O'Loan Declan O'Loan MLA is a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) councillor and member of the Northern Ireland Assembly in Ballymena. O'Loan was elected as member for the constituency of South Antrim in the 2007 Assembly Elections. said the offer must be realistic and adequate. He said: "Above all we must remember that legally, the civil servants deserve to be paid in full value for their work. "That is without question. It's a pity it has taken so long to reach this point." CAPTION(S): REALISTIC Declan O'Loan |
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