EU court gives backing to clerical workers seeking same salaries as Gardai.

petersburg2002

Could end up costing the state €100million or more:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/clerical-staff-pay-gap-with-gardai-must-be-justified-216353.html

jimmycrackcorm

I'd justify the difference alone to not have Gardai behave like the police in India where handing over a few ruppees gets you out of speeding tickets.

phoenix999

petersburg2002 wrote: »

Could end up costing the state €100million or more:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/clerical-staff-pay-gap-with-gardai-must-be-justified-216353.html

Since when do clerical staff patrol the streets? Discrimination my arse. Just a nice loop hole to get more cash.

girl in the striped socks

Any clerical staff I know working in Garda stations should have their wages docked for every bit of gossip they repeat back from their job.

It seems you can't get done for anything without the news of the alleged crime making its way out of the station before you do.

They're paid relatively well paid as it is. Guards spend two or three years in templemore getting trained up on a variety of areas relevant to the job before they spend time on the beat so they're well entitled to earn more money considering they have more knowledge.

humbert

It's about clerical staff doing the same job as gardai assigned to clerical duties but getting less money.

You should get paid for what you do not how qualified you are and so, while I regard them all as feckless wasters, I don't see why two people doing the same job should get different pay.

Head The Wall

No, guards are not trained to do clerical work, it is a waste of guard resources doing something less than they are trained for. They are trying to claim they can do everything the same as a guard when they can do a particular function guards were assigned to do i.e. Clerical paperwork

MagicSean

humbert wrote: »

It's about clerical staff doing the same job as gardai assigned to clerical duties but getting less money.

You should get paid for what you do not how qualified you are and so, while I regard them all as feckless wasters, I don't see why two people doing the same job should get different pay.

Gardai are only in the position temporarily and can be removed from it at short notice for policing duties. They must also keep up to date on their training courses and court cases at the same time.

bbam

humbert wrote: »

It's about clerical staff doing the same job as gardai assigned to clerical duties but getting less money.

You should get paid for what you do not how qualified you are and so, while I regard them all as feckless wasters, I don't see why two people doing the same job should get different pay.

I disagree with that and have worked many places where it's common.
If one employee has the ability to do additional tasks when asked and has more
Experience and education then they are more valuable and paying them more is justified.
These guys are doing clerical work equivelant to what they were doing before, now they are doing it alongside Gardai, who are in a much more demanding job but may just be doing clerical work for a short time.

I don't even think they should be in the stations. I know the lad in our local station and he's a pure gossip and a dose too.

aloyisious

The solution: give the clerical officers the rate of pay a person at the lowest C/O level in the Public Service would earn, with the allowance applied to clerks or Able-Writers in the Defence Forces, with a proviso that they are not going to be employed elsewhere in the Public Service and will not be doing the basic work of An Garda Siochana members in interfacing physically with the public on public order or criminal offence matters at street level, written into their contracts.