Sentences with phrase «age of public sector workers»

Asked about the government's proposals for the future of public sector pensions, the most popular option was the government's original plan to gradually increase the retirement age of public sector workers under 50 to 65, supported by 39 % of respondents.

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«The shadow chancellor has wrapped up public sector cuts, public sector pay freezes, a rise in retirement age and reduced pension rights in warm words that will ring hollow with Britain's army of public sector workers.»

Mr Cameron accused the chancellor of a «craven surrender» in allowing these workers to retire at 60 - Lord Turner is expected to call for a general rise in retirement age to 67 - and argued that any pensions scheme must be equitable for private and public sector workers.

In the age of austerity, where we'll be asking frontline public sector workers to help us keep pay levels down we can not leave the pay of public sector bureaucrats untouched.

A report by Policy Exchange published last week claimed that public sector workers are better off than their private sector counterparts in terms of hours worked, retirement age and pension quality.

The unions are also highlighting the serious workplace and social problems that will accompany the enforced longer working age for public sector workers, particularly those with strenuous or demanding jobs like construction workers, cleaners, nurses, paramedics and teachers, including an increasingly frail workforce and the exclusion of younger workers from the labour market.

«It is low - paid private sector workers working beyond retirement age... who are subsidising public sector pensions while receiving none of the benefits.

Police and firefighters are typically eligible to retire after 20 years of service, and many other public sector workers can leave at age 55.