WHO IS A CIVIL SERVANT? Civil servants are those who are employed by the crown, excluding those who are employed by the monarch herself. The civil service therefore excludes those who are employed by the parliament and those employed by other public bodies. The rest of this note examines those three types of public sector employee and ends with a summary of key statistics. As civil servants are employed by the crown and not by individual departments, they can be transferred between departments without formality and without losing employment rights. This not only facilitates the free flow of staff between the departments, but also facilitates reorganization within central government. It is indeed quite common for large number of civil servants to find themselves working for different departments at different hours. WHAT IS IEA? The International Energy Agency acts as energy policy advisor for the governments of its 28 member countries and beyond to promote affordable and clean energy for the world's consumers. The IEA conducts a broad program of energy research, data collection and analysis, extensive publications and public dissemination of the latest energy policy analysis and good practice. The IEA also makes changes to the climate change policies and researching into new energy technology. They also try to collaborate and outreach with larger countries like Russia and China. MAKING CIVIL SERVANTS' PAY INTO PENSION The IEA recently released a statement that they would like the civil servants' pay to be made into pension. They say civil servants should be forced to contribute towards the cost of their pension and pay the full rate of the PRSI to help the country out of the current economic crisis. Introducing a redundancy program would be costly in the short term and depress economic activity, but public sector workers should be responsible for funding their own pensions. It said that if the government took 10% off civil servants pay and earmarked it for pension contributions and paying the full rate of PRSI, up to 1.5bn per year could be shaved off the public pay bill. It warned that export would drop by 9% this year. A 20-fold increase on the government's projection of 0.5% which would see a fall in tax revenues. Many civil servants contribute nothing to their pension scheme and pay reduced rate of PRSI. The IEA said that the, reducing public sector employment by means of redundancy will be costly in the short term and would further depress the home market economic activity, and that there is a strong case for immediately introducing compulsory pension and PRSI deductions on all public sector employees. The target should be to ensure the public sector pension costs are self-funded by the public sector employees. CONCLUSION In summary, the IEA is stressing that civil servants' pay should be made to pension so as to save the country from the economic crisis it is facing at per the moment.
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Civil servants are those who are employed by the crown, excluding those who are employed by the monarch herself. The civil service therefore excludes those who are employed by the parliament and those employed by other public bodies.
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