Worst hit public sector workers earn €38,000

[sunshine2009]

Okay I work in the public sector, I understand the country has gone down the pan and I have to play my part…. But the point of this thread is the unfairness of how the pension levy is applied. I earn under the higher tax band and therefore will be paying a higher percentage of a pension levy then somebody earning 20k more a year than me. This I do not agree with. If it is applied fairly I will suck it up and deal with it.

On a side note I already took a 20% pay cut to move from the private sector to the public sector last year. (so much for the PS wages being higher!). I won’t be permanent here until I work a full year so I could still be facing down the barrel of a P45. I have no choice but to pay into this pension which I don’t want - which I can’t freeze to pay my rent - and which I’m told will be worth sod all to me since I’m on a low wage and won’t hit the full years service quota if I ever get to retirement.

[selfemployedmar]

All I can say is this amount of money even the low paid worker is getting is obsene..
The dole is €205 per wk, and self employed small business people do not have pensions and we are not entitled to the dole either!! We pay huge local government levies to pay these people for being arrogant even when you ring them up with a question. I am lucky if i take home 20K per year and I have four children and i never asked for anything and pay all my taxes etc

[selfemployedmar]

I would love to earn €38k per yr plus benefits!!!!

[hopi watcher]

I would love to earn €38k per yr plus benefits!!!!

Well get a proper job than!!!

[gazdub]

I would love to earn €38k per yr plus benefits!!!!

Well join the Civil Service and after 18 years you MIGHT get to that rate of salary depending on you getting your annual increments and that you successfully get through your probation(not all Civil Servants do)

[selfemployedmar]

Well some of us run our own business and dont expect handouts we actually work for her money

[selfemployedmar]

We actually work for our money and live in the real world of business and not fairyland in the public sector

[Conor]

We actually work for our money and live in the real world of business

Not very successfully, it would appear. Are you sure you're cut out for self-employment?

[islands]

We actually work for our money and live in the real world of business and not fairyland in the public sector

Fairyland? is that where your kids' teachers, the guards, the doctors, the county council workers, the librarians, the nurses live?

I thought they lived down the road, in the same world as the rest of us, working for their money, etc.

[atlantic]

Please explain a proper job, you keep on about this?

Well get a proper job than!!!