But she has asked the body to recommend what adjustments could be made to the salary ranges for teachers within the average 1 per
cent pay award, urging Ms Rice to «consider any additional flexibilities that could be introduced to support schools».
The unions may have been buoyed by the decision of the Chief Secretary, Liz Truss, to allow a 2 per
cent pay award for police officers and a 1.7 per cent award for prisons staff in 2017 - 18, while signalling that the Government may grant greater flexibility from 2018 - 19 to deal with skill shortages.
According to the teachers» union NASUWT, too many schools are awarding inflation - busting pay rises to senior management «while teachers are not even receiving the one per
cent pay award».
They also argued that it made the government's rejection of a 2.5 per
cent pay award for nurses and health workers look unfair.
Not exact matches
Undies boss tripled her
pay, then sacked 1,850 workers In an act that could only be described as corporate bastardry, shameless executives at Bonds owner Pacific Brands
awarded themselves
pay rises of up to 170 per
cent while they sacked nearly 2000 workers.
The FWO has found 76 per
cent of Caltex stores audited were exploiting workers, including breaching workplace laws and «significantly» under
paying award wages to young foreign workers on visas.
Late on Tuesday, after several years of negotiations, Domino's finally proposed a new agreement that
paid workers a few
cents higher than the
award rate and introduced three - hour minimum shifts.
The new contract
awarded consultants a 27 per
cent pay rise, bringing their annual income to # 110,000 before private earnings were taken into account.
The government has
awarded teachers a 2.45 per
cent pay rise from September, above its two per
cent target for the wider public sector.
The independent Police Arbitration Tribunal said the 2.5 per
cent pay rise should be backdated to September, but only officers in Scotland have been able to claim the full
award.
Gordon Brown maintains public sector
pay awards must be below two per
cent to prevent rising inflation.
The Home Office has refused to backdate a 2.5 per
cent pay rise to September, in a move officers claim diminishes the value of the
award to 1.9 per
cent.
However, the STRB has recommended a
pay award of only one per
cent for most salary levels, and none at all for the maximum
pay ranges for senior leaders — meaning a
pay freeze for those at the top of these ranges.
The union revealed that the average
pay award for teachers last year «was a paltry 0.6 per
cent, even lower than claims by ministers».
He continued: «Last year, the combined effect of the government's
pay cap and discretionary
pay in schools means that the average
pay award for classroom teachers last year was 0.6 per
cent.
Seamus Searson, SSTA general secretary said, «At this early stage 96 per
cent of SSTA members are prepared to take industrial action for an above inflation
pay award in 2018.
This follows years of
pay rises being limited to one per
cent, until a September 2017
pay award that allowed for a 2 per
cent increase to the main
pay scale but still left salaries trailing, with the Consumer Prices Index 12 - month rate at 3.0 per
cent in October 2017.
It rewards teachers at the top of the
pay - scale, recognising those who exceed performance objectives through a three - per -
cent non-consolidated
pay award — in short, a bonus.
Meanwhile at the David Ross Education Trust (DRET), chief executive Wendy Marshall was
awarded a # 20,000
pay rise (13 per
cent) from # 150,000 in 2015 to # 170,000 last year.
The government's policy for all public sector
pay in the 2016 - 17 financial year is for an average
award of 1 per
cent, similar to this year.
Shell has a Shell Drive For Five ® Card which takes 5
cents off every gallon each time you
pay for gas at Shell stations, and Conoco offers a Drive Savvy ® Rewards Credit Card that has a complicated system for
awarding gas credits.
You can also get
award flights by purchasing miles at a very advantageous rate, either during frequent 100 percent bonus promotions or when you book at the Miles / Money fare,
paying at least 40 percent of the ticket in miles and the remainder in cash at a rate of 1.5
cents per mile.
If you just need to top up an account to give yourself enough miles to book an
award then it's fine to
pay a bit more per mile but, if you're buying bulk, you should probably automatically shy away of prices of 2
cents / mile and over.
While these three cards also offer a «
Pay with Points» option when you book your
award travel through the Amex or Chase travel portals where the points can be worth anywhere from 1
cent to 1.5
cents each, you can find potentially better value in transferring your travel rewards points.
If you are purchasing an
award ticket completely operated by Iberia or British Airways, you have the option to
pay with a combination of Avios and cash, which is like purchasing Avios at a rate of around 1.4
cents per mile.
â $
cents 500 Starpoints will be
awarded per
paid eligible stay after displaying your stay info or reservation number through one of the SPG Apps at check - in time â $
cents 500 Starpoints will be credited to the member's account within 4 - 6 weeks of the stay posting to the member's Starwood Preferred Guest account.
On the other hand, a business class Travel Together Ticket redemption between Seattle and London in August (the earliest I was able to find
award space) would cost 150,000 Avios and $ 2,514, while two
paid tickets would cost $ 8,093, giving you roughly 3.7
cents per Avios.
For example, it makes sense to get a Flying Blue
award for 50,000 miles round trip from New - York to Paris when a refundable fare can be upwards of $ 3,700 round trip (that's 7.0
cents per mile if you would actually have
paid for that refundable ticket).
When
award space is availble, it's not too difficult to find an economy class
award ticket for 25,000 miles instead of
paying $ 500 (valuing miles at 2
cents each), or an international business class
award ticket for 120,000 miles instead of $ 6,000 (valuing miles at 5
cents each).
He also wants to always get at least 2
cents of value out of each point, so he oftentimes ends up
paying for plane tickets instead of doing
award redemptions if there's only high - level
award space available.
Qmiles plus Cash fares seem like a great way to get an
award when your balance is low, but the amount you
pay in cash is equivalent to about 3
cents a mile a pretty poor rate for purchasing miles.
When redeeming air travel
awards, you always want to aim to get a value of at least 1
cent per mile in relation to the true ticket price, or you're better off
paying cash.
Considering I bought these miles at 1.1
cents a piece, that was like
paying $ 330 extra to fly in first class on most legs of what will be a 25,900 - mile
award ticket - a no - brainer since first class seats are generally much more spacious and every inch of pitch counts when you're 6» 7 ″!
Flying Blue also allows a stopover and open jaw routing on roundtrip
awards, so even if you have to
pay fuel surcharges, you may be able to get well more than the standard 1
cent per point or less that Citi gives for ThankYou point redemptions.
While the roundtrip ticket is $ 100 cheaper than two
paid tickets, if low - level
award space is available on one segment, but not the other, you can buy one $ 350
paid ticket and redeem 12,500 miles, getting 2
cents per redeemed mile.
If my cash budget doesn't allow me to buy the flights I want then
cents per mile doesn't matter since what I am willing to
pay is effectively $ 0 (or just the minimal taxes and charges for the
award ticket).
I would love to keep my own points in my account and
pay only 1.2
cents each to cover half of my
award.
Use 60
award miles per gallon to get 50
cents off per gallon at BP when you
pay with the debit or credit card linked to your Driver Rewards account.2
Though money was the main public focus of the lawyers» contract demands (a
pay increase of 10 per
cent over four years, the same conditions an arbitrator
awarded Quebec's 450 Crown counsel), Dion says the real driver that triggered the civil lawyers» strike on Oct. 24, 2016 — and fuelled their desire to stay out even after the LANEQ's war chest was depleted and many members were in dire personal financial straits — was their indignation over the government's refusal to grant them the same right to a binding arbitration process in exchange for the right to strike as they did to the province's 450 - member Crown attorneys» union (the Association des procureurs aux poursuites criminelles et pénales).
For example, if the claimant is 25 per
cent responsible, and the
award is determined at $ 100 000, then the other party will be responsible for
paying $ 75 000.
Most candidates (50 per
cent) received a
pay rise from between 3 - 6 per
cent, while 19 per
cent were
awarded up to a three per
cent increase.