THE HEAD of the country's largest public-sector trade union has said "an incomes policy" will undoubtedly form part of the talks between the Government and social partners on a national recovery plan.
In a letter to senior figures in the Impact trade union yesterday, general secretary Peter McLoone said this would "present enormous challenges".
"This current crisis has not arisen because the earnings of the vast majority of those in employment are too high and it follows that a reduction in incomes will not resolve this crisis", he said.
However, he said that as yet nobody had mentioned, never mind discussed, the issues of pay or pensions.
Mr McLoone said that over the next few weeks, discussions between the social partners would "dig deeper into the detail of what needs to be done to get an appropriate rescue plan agreed".
He said the Government's framework document for sustainable economic renewal had been published on Thursday "with the usual fanfare of publicity".
However, he said it did not contain much detail about how the key objectives set out in the plan would be achieved.
