Hell of a thread 
What’s going on here ? Is this about the restoration to CS earners above 150k?
I bumped it to highlight Robert Watt allegedly adding 90k to his own salary as part of his move into this new role.
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Ah ok …what’s his new role?
Secretary General of Department of Health
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About time they put a capable man in there if that’s the case …
Paymaster general by the sounds of it.
He had the power to give himself a pay rise.
Does Unions and DPER not negotiate the wages ?
I don’t think he’s actually got the job he’s had the payrise for yet.
Governance 101
Shameless clickbait from McWilliams
https://twitter.com/davidmcw/status/1751182233287733400?t=SLDvC9KWRg68ac3A8VAbCA&s=19
https://twitter.com/ciarannugent/status/1751207027836072324?t=_hFEALX_gp6g1ywJ0rCkXQ&s=19
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Spending power is What’s killing Ireland… almost the worst in the EU. The euro is a failure and is fucking us.
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No harm to pull him up on this stuff. The public sector is struggling to attract any talent at current salary scales.
Yep. People go through the whole PAS system, the rock up at the assigned dept and are shocked to discover they cant negotiate salary and theyre starting at the bottom of the scale
In the olden days they used be able to count comparable years experience and put that towards a point on the scale, or something like that?
Never heard of that. Closest to that is when you get promoted and if you’re on a higher salary than the starting point then you go the the next point on scale that’s higher
I’ve seen smaller public sector entities break this rule on occassion if you get the right candidate.
Some of them can actually do it such as chief states solicitors office, the DPP and EI and IDA.
No negotiation in central departments
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I’d say only with DPENDR approval.