Details have emerged of Government incentives to encourage public service workers to accept the new Croke Park deal, which would see significant cuts in earnings and a longer working week.
The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has told unions that staff who retire before the end of August 2014 will have their pension entitlements calculated on their pre-pay cut salary.
Firefighters will be allowed to retain what is called "the totality of their pay structure" because of savings generated in the fire service.
Over the next six weeks, unions will be balloting members on the proposals.
IMPACT and the Public Service Executive Union have recommended acceptance, but five unions including the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation are urging rejection.
Today, the Irish National Teachers' Organisation will decide its position.
SIPTU and the Irish Medical Organisation will announce their view next week.
The proposals in the deal are aimed at reducing the public sector pay bill by an additional €1 billion over the next three years.
The new agreement includes pay cuts for top earners, additional hours for no extra pay, and reductions in allowances and premium payments.
However, some of the 290,000 public servants may have their vote swayed by additional sweeteners.
But a leader of one of the unions representing firefighters has said his members do not want to be used to "divide or conquer" other frontline colleagues.
Speaking on RTÉ's News at One, Irish Fire and Emergency Services Association Chairman John Kidd said his personal view was that members should continue to support their garda and nursing colleagues.
However, he said it was up to the "collective" to vote on the deal and that there would be no deal until they got clarity from Government.
Elsewhere, revelations that the Department of Health is seeking an exemption from pay cuts for highly paid contractors in the health service may evoke a negative reaction.
However, Minister for Health James Reilly has indicated that all people working in the public service, including contractors, must share the burden that the country now has to bear.
Should the new Croke Park deal be accepted, then similar reductions of a proportionate nature will be sought from others through other mechanisms.
Croke Park deal 'manifestly unfair' - INMO
Public servants who may not be adversely affected by the new Croke Park deal have been urged not to negatively alter the conditions of others.
Deputy General Secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation David Hughes said the deal is manifestly unfair and should be rejected.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Hughes said the deal was anti-women because it will roll back on two decades of good progress on family-friendly work place initiatives.
He said: "It is manifestly unfair because a shift worker on €30,000 per annum will lose 8%, and a politician on €200,000 per annum will lose 7%."
The INMO has called on its members to reject the new agreement.
However, Head of Communications at IMPACT Bernard Harbor said unions had negotiated the fairest deal in the circumstances.
Speaking on the same programme, he said: "Management came to us and said they were looking at every area of the public service pay bill and that nothing would be exempt."
He said: "We believe that if you look at the entire package, it falls differently on different people, different measures impact on different people more or less.
"But if you look at the entire package we believe we have agreed a high degree of equity in the outcome of the negotiation."
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