Unsustainable pensions

There is something important in the background to the debates we have been seeing about the ESB pension fund and also the pension entitlements of bosses in the charity sector. It is the extraordinary pension arrangements which prevail across most of the public sector. Labour Relations Commission chief executive Kieran Mulvey suggested after the ESB deal was brokered that we needed a national forum on the issue. He is right, but a key ...