Brexit plan’s veiled threat on public sector pay

The Department of Finance is “nervous” about the prospect of unaffordable public sector pay hikes being agreed in a new three-year deal.

The Sunday Business Post has learned that the Department insisted on putting references to the need for prudence in the government’s Brexit policy paper, as a warning to public sector unions.

The actual paper ended up containing six separate references to “prudent management” of the economy to keep it competitive in ...