Section 39 employees to receive pay rises next month Updated / Thursday, 10 Dec 2020 17:55 Industry and Employment Correspondent Around 7,000 workers in 250 state-funded health and social care bodies known as Section 39 agencies are to receive pay rises from next month in settlement of their dispute over restoration of austerity-era pay cuts. Under the proposals brokered at the Workplace Relations Commission, the first of two instalments of pay restoration will see staff secure a €1,000 annual increase from 1 January. The second instalment - equivalent to 50% of the outstanding pay restoration due to them - will take effect from 31 May, with payment commencing in June. Following the settlement, Fórsa and SIPTU have agreed to call off next week's scheduled one-day strikes at Co-Action in Kerry, and Southdoc in Cork and Kerry.