Chairman of the Civil Service Commission Alf Cannan MHK is urging unions to show restraint in future pay negotiations.
It’s after the government announced civil servants have been awarded a 1.2 per cent pay rise this year.
Mr Cannan says negotiations have been difficult and the rise will cost the government a million pounds this year.
But he says pay demands in future could mean jobs are put at risk.

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