Sentences with phrase «freezes in the public sector»

The party plans to find $ 1.3 billion in government spending cuts (just like the Liberals, but in a shorter time frame), which would be achieved partially through a hiring freeze in the public sector.

Pay freezes in the public sector and the threatened increase in pension contributions will make matters worse.

Not exact matches

The cap was introduced by former prime minister David Cameron in 2010 and has resulted in public sector pay being frozen at one percent rises for the last seven years.

It usually takes a few years from recession to governments realizing that they have no money and have to freeze public sector salaries e.g. the big hit on public sector salaries were in say 83, 84 after the recession of 80, Rae Days were in mid 1990s after the recession of 1990,91, etc..

Linda McQuaig puts the heat on Ontarioâ $ ™ s public - sector compensation freeze in todayâ $ ™ s Toronto Star.

In order to win next year, Cameron needs to persuade at least some of the millions of public sector workers currently living under a one per cent pay freeze that their living standards will improve as well.

«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.»

Disability benefits are protected, but tax thresholds are increasing by one per cent and those in the public sector who had seen their pay frozen will now receive one per cent pay increases.

To the extent that conservatives succeed in reducing fiscal woes to a case of runaway spending, politicians find it easier to address budget shortfalls with public sector furlough days, wage freezes, layoffs and benefit cuts than with progressive tax increases that, many economists conclude, would cause the least harm to the recovery.

They have forced cuts to public sector pay, reduced or frozen minimum wages, and restricted collective pay agreements in the name of greater market competition.

Public sector pay will be frozen for two years for those earning more than # 21,000 a year, the chancellor announced in today's Budget.

Public sector pay was frozen throughout the last parliament, leading to real - terms cuts in public sectoPublic sector pay was frozen throughout the last parliament, leading to real - terms cuts in public sectopublic sector pay.

The Financial Times suggested that in order to find additional cuts of # 30 - 40bn, the incoming government might have to cut public sector pay by 5 per cent, freeze benefits for a year, means - test child benefit, abolish winter fuel payments, and cut free TV licences and bus passes.

«But then you have to counter-balance it with their absurd support for the public sector pay freeze, which in our view is economically stupid.

In a blow to rival candidate Andy Burnham, who had hoped to win the support of one of Britain's main trade unions, the Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, said Corbyn's message was resonating with public sector workers whose wages had been frozen in recent yearIn a blow to rival candidate Andy Burnham, who had hoped to win the support of one of Britain's main trade unions, the Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, said Corbyn's message was resonating with public sector workers whose wages had been frozen in recent yearin recent years.

The President also dispelled allegations that there is a freeze on public sector employment especially in the education and technical sectors.

The Conservatives have attacked the government for proposing a freeze on senior public sector pay in the middle of their party conference.

Pay freezes and below - inflation pay rises have reduced public sector workers» pay by 20 % since the coalition came to power in 2010, public sector pensions have been attacked and public services have been slashed across the country.

In office, Labour will not reverse the coalition's spending cuts — and that includes public sector pay which remains all but frozen.

The BCC also wants an immediate two - year pay freeze on public sector pay and a complete abolition of the April 2011 rise in national insurance contributions.

The truth is that in both the public and private sectors people have made sacrifices: longer hours, more flexibility, pay freezes, to protect jobs.

Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition of its austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»

«Spending in the wider economy is also hit because millions of public sector workers are enduring a pay freeze - while inflation is high and the cost of household necessities, like energy, are soaring.

Public sector pay will be frozen for two years for staff earning over # 21,000, while the government will accelerate the increase in the state pension age to 66.

Criticising the pay freeze for top earners announced by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, last night, Osborne said: «To sneak out a public sector pay announcement in the middle of a Conservative conference shows these Labour politicians are better at writing books about courage than displaying it,» a reference to Gordon Brown's book Courage: Eight Portraits.

Although Miliband told Andrew Marr that «if Labour was in power now, we wouldn't be making those changes, we wouldn't be cutting as far and as fast as the government», he said it was right to support the Government's pay freeze for public sector workers:

Chancellor Georg e Osborne had triggered outrage in his 2011 Budget by confirming plans to cap public sector pay at one per cent for two years, after the current pay freeze ends, and take steps to «rebalance» pay levels across the country.

This is hardly surprising, but it's also worth noting that the WFP has agreed to embrace Cuomo's «New NY Agenda» — a condition laid out by the AG in order for him to accept the party's nod — which includes a property tax cap, creation of another pension tier and a wage freeze for public employees, among other proposals of which many unions (mostly the progressive and public sector types) aren't fond.

McCluskey, who launched a hard hitting attack on the Labour leadership in a Guardian article published in January following the decision in the New Year to endorse a continuation of the government's public sector pay freeze, admits that the stance has led to a fracturing of trust between Labour and trade unions.

«It is fanciful to believe this can be achieved merely by savings in administration, or freezing certain departmental spending limits while ring - fencing vast swaths of the public sector.

Public sector workers will have pay frozen for two years - with the protection of 1.7 million earning less that # 21,000 who will receive a # 250 increase in both years.

Kenneth Clarke later said that the higher taxes, cuts in benefits and services and public - sector pay freeze announced by Osborne are only a sample of the measures to be taken.

These public sector workers claim that they are not seeing any benefit from a recovering economy and that the pay freeze and 1 % cap on a rise which they've seen in the last four years, has left them # 4,000 worse off than in 2010.

The biggest issue in the dispute is pay, after ministers froze public sector salaries in 2010 and introduced a 1 % cap on pay rises in 2012 - which remains in place.

And by saying that the 50p tax rate could not be abolished while the public sector pay freeze was in place, he also hinted that it could be abolished in 2012.

The economic crisis has severely affected many autonomous regions, and the federal government recently announced a public - sector hiring freeze and a cut of $ 600 million in the country's research budget.

The Statement also set out plans to limit pay rises in the public sector, a move that has angered the teaching profession after what the Times Educational Supplement has described as «four years of pay freezes and marginal one per cent salary increases since the coalition came into power.»

Teachers received a 1 % rise last year, after two years of salary freezes, in line with the general 1 % pay cap across the public sector.

In England, the public sector pay freeze of recent years has meant real terms pay cuts for many teachers.