Haddington Road Agreement 2013 - 2016 and Financial ... - TUI

HADDINGTON ROAD AGREEMENT 2013 - 2016ANDFINANCIAL EMERGENCY IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ACT 2013Education sector talks under the auspices of the Labour Relations Commission(LRC) were held in late May 2013. The talks resulted in issue, by the LRC, ofthe proposed Haddington Road Agreement.With effect from 1st of July 2013, this Act cut the pay of all public servantsearning over €65,000 and froze the increments of public servants not covered bya collective agreement.On 5th of June 2013, the Oireachtas enacted the Financial Emergency Measuresin the Public Interest (FEMPI) Act 2013. With effect from 1st of July 2013, thisAct cut the pay of all public servants and froze the increments of public servantsnot covered by a collective agreement. The FEMPI Act also provides (undersection 2B) that the relevant Minister can set or amend terms and conditions soas to reduce remuneration or increase the working hours of public servants.1Following a decision of the Executive Committee, TUI members will ballot onwhether to accept or reject the proposed Haddington Road Agreement betweenSeptember 2, 2013 and September 20, 2013. As the implications of theproposed Haddington Road Agreement and the FEMPI Act are different foreach member, the Executive Committee decided to issue the Ballot without arecommendation.For the information of members, the following document contains the textof the Haddington Road Agreement and the Education Sector Appendix.For ease of reading, areas of the text of the proposed Agreement which aredifferent to the previously rejected ‘Croke Park 2’ proposals are in Green.The document also contains the full text of the Financial Emergency in thePublic Interest (FEMPI) Act 2013 and the Explanatory Memorandumwhich accompanied the FEMPI Bill.