Industrial Relations

Government holds out on revised pay offer for 340,000 public sector workers

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar had earlier claimed that he expected the government to re-engage and make a ‘further offer’

Michael McGrath, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, said he believed the government’s offer of a 7 per cent pay increase across this year and next year was ‘a credible one’. Picture: Fergal Phillips