Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 300: To ask the Minister for Finance the mechanism for calculating public sector pay cuts, announced in budget 2010, for those with a job-sharing work arrangement; if the percentage pay cut is calculated on the basis of actual gross income or on the basis of a full-time equivalent gross income; if his attention has been drawn to any anomalies arising from the method of calculation which would lead to individuals on identical gross incomes being subject to differing cuts in gross pay because one of other was in a job-sharing work arrangement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2045/10]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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It is a well established principle that the pay of work sharers and those on atypical work patterns is calculated by reference to the whole time equivalent pay rate for the grade or post in question and the reduced pay rates are, therefore, calculated in this way. This practice is consistent with the legislation governing the conditions of employment of part-time workers.