Education unions have sent a letter to education secretary Justine Greening, calling for a fully funded five per
cent pay rise for all teachers.
The one per
cent pay rise for teachers is in line with the government's cap on public sector pay rises, which many had hoped would be scrapped.
Late on Saturday, Deutsche Telekom, the German telephone company, agreed a 2.3 per
cent pay rise for 17,000 staff this year, plus two increases of 2.1 per cent each in 2013.
Not exact matches
The numbers show slight upticks in manufacturing employment, the average length of the workweek, and even a 7 -
cent rise in average hourly
pay for workers.
Kmart's same - store sales adjusted
for Easter
rose 6.8 per
cent during the quarter, as its continued focus on slashing prices
paid dividends.
Downing Street has insisted there is no change in the Government's policy on the public sector
pay cap, after mounting Cabinet pressure
for the 1 per
cent limit on annual
rises to be eased.
In the days after the Budget, unease grew as Harriet Harman, the party's acting leader, and Chris Leslie, the shadow chancellor, signalled that Labour would not oppose Conservative policies such as the 1 per
cent cap on public - sector
pay rises for four years and the reduced benefit cap of # 20,000 (# 23,000 in London).
The senior salaries review body (SSRB) recommends MPs vote
for a
pay rise of 2.56 per
cent, noting that they are underpaid compared to people in comparable positions in the private and public sector.
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.
But the board which makes recommendations
for MPs»
pay is likely to suggest a
pay rise of 2.8 per
cent, with many backbenchers threatening to defy Gordon Brown's calls
for restraint.
A trade union leader has condemned reports suggesting MPs are pushing
for a 66 per
cent pay rise to take their salaries to # 100,000 a year.
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers» Alliance, said it would be «completely inappropriate»
for MPs to approve a 2.56 per
cent pay rise.
Public sector
pay rises will be capped to one
for two years from 2011, while the 40 per
cent income tax threshold will be frozen the following year - hitting anyone earning over # 43,000.
In the UK, bills would
rise by 8 to 10 per
cent to
pay for new nuclear, Toke says.
Considering the
rising cost of university tuition and the widespread unemployment that makes it hard
for young scholars to find well -
paying work to fund it, Wade says his site has seen the number members who are university students grow from 30 per
cent in 2006 to approximately 50 per
cent last year.
However the ASCL's submitted evidence says it should not be «fettered» by this government restriction and should «press the DfE
for fully funded
pay rises above the proposed one per
cent».
Scottish teachers are set to receive a 1.5 per
cent pay rise after the Scottish Negotiating Committee
for Teachers (SNCT) formally agreed a
pay and conditions deal.
The joint letter noted that unions want the government to restore
pay levels to at least the levels that existed before the start of the
pay restraint in 2010; give teachers a
pay rise of five per
cent in 2019 as a first step towards restoration; make teacher
pay a priority in discussions within the government; and provide sufficient additional funding
for this increase in teachers»
pay in the chancellor's budget statement this autumn.
The government has accepted a recommendation from the School Teachers Review Body (STRB) that
pay rises for most teachers will
rise by one per
cent for 2017/18.
With schools facing increased costs amounting to 4.5 per
cent due to
pay rises, National Insurance contributions and pension deficits, it's no wonder that more than 90 per
cent of 1,000 head teachers surveyed by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) say that their finances are going to be critically under pressure
for 2015/2016.
Whilst there is no doubt that EFA staff are working extremely hard in this challenging context, so are teachers and school leaders, who have had
pay rises of a maximum of one per
cent a year imposed on them
for the duration of this parliament.»
The strikes follow a rejected
pay offer by teaching unions that would have seen staff receive no across the board
pay rise for 2015 - 16, and a one per
cent cost of living uplift
for 2016 - 17.
Despite concerns of a school recruitment crisis, the education secretary has made the case
for keeping teachers»
pay rises capped at an average of 1 per
cent next year.
Despite a teacher
pay freeze
for the first three years of the Coalition Government, followed by just a one per
cent rise after this, when taken as a whole education jobs have fared better than average overall.
«Whilst there is no doubt that EFA staff are working extremely hard in this challenging context, so are teachers and school leaders, who have had
pay rises of a maximum of 1 per
cent a year imposed on them
for the duration of this parliament.»
The education secretary wants teachers»
pay rises to be capped at an average of 1 per
cent next year, despite experts previously warning the government of the need
for a «significantly higher
rise».
The median gender
pay gap
for all teachers in all schools and academies is around 4 per
cent, but the gap
rises to almost 8 per
cent for senior leaders and is highest at almost 10 per
cent for head teachers and principals.
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.
Pay rises for public sector workers, including teachers, have been capped at 1 per
cent since 2012.
The average salary
for an academy headteacher has
risen by nearly five per
cent in 12 months, and the
pay packet
for primary school leaders is slowly catching up with that of their secondary peers.
If both Larry and Emily add $ 5,500 each
for the next five years using surplus cash, the accounts, generating 3 per
cent a year would
rise to $ 180,700 total and be able to
pay $ 7,800 per year
for the next 38 years, at which time all capital would be expended.
Example: If you prepaid
for your home heating oil at $ 3.00 / gallon and you
paid an extra 25
cents per gallon
for «downside protection», you would never
pay more than $ 3.00 / gallon when the oil was delivered, even if the daily cash price of heating oil
rose to $ 5.00 / gallon as it almost did in 2008.
If you opted
for the «downside protection» option
for an additional 25
cents per gallon, heating oil would need to
rise above $ 2.65 / gal before you broke even; however, you would have the peace of mind of
paying a lower delivery price if the price of oil were to drop significantly.
Example, if you prepaid
for your home heating oil at $ 3.00 / gallon and you
paid an extra 25
cents per gallon
for «downside protection», you would never
pay more than $ 3.00 / gallon when the oil was delivered, even if the daily cash price of heating oil
rose to $ 5.00 / gallon as it almost did in 2008.
The findings show that the average value of road traffic accident (RTA) personal injury claims
rose by 3.4 per
cent, while insurance
pay - outs
for small employers» and public liability (EL / PL) personal injury claims also increased by an average of 10 and 12 per
cent respectively in this period.
Despite this, a massive 58 per
cent did not ask
for a
pay rise in the last year.
They put down higher down payments (45 per
cent of investors
paid 20 per
cent or more, compared to 31 per
cent of owners), were less likely to have a mortgage, less likely to expect their unit to
rise in value, and kept their condos
for shorter periods of time (23 per
cent of investors said they planned to keep their condo
for 10 years or more, compared to nearly half of owners who lived in their unit.)