Sentences with phrase «in public sector»

More than 24,000 professionals — half of whom work in the public sector and health service, the police, and in social services — ask us to give this food to clients because they've made the decision that this individual or family is in dire straits and needs help.

Labour leadership candidate Ed Balls said despite the deficit, the Royal Mail should remain in the public sector.

Productivity was up 20 % in the private service sector but it's fallen in the public sector.

There is also a general pattern emerging: Liberal Democrat opposition has brought progress on the NHS reforms to a standstill, watered down any potential radicalism in the public sector reform White Paper, and now stopped elected Police commisioners, the cornerstone of reformist Conservative policy.

Wage harmonisation in the public sector betrays an arrogance of central planning rarely encountered in our tepid age of policymaking.

Leader of Public and Commercial Services Union blames reduction in public sector staff for delays

Indeed one senior politician compared Rhodri Morgan (Carwyn's mentor in public sector studies) with Ramsay Macdonald and another loyalist Valley's MP told Carwyn directly that it was a pity that he didn't pay more attention to health and education in Wales instead of devolving police powers, with criminal justice to follow.

As Cabinet Office Minister, Maude is responsible for: public service efficiency and reform groups, Civil Service issues, industrial relations strategy in the public sector, transparency, civil contingencies, civil society and cyber-security.

He told MPs yesterday: «I think when people will see it, they will see it is fair: fair to the public sector, people in the public sector will get a much more generous pension than is available in almost any part of the private sector; but it is also fair to the taxpayers.»

Today's forecasts of what's going to happen to employment over the next five years according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) shed more light on how the new coalition government's deficit - slicing plans will hit those working in the public sector, writes Neil MacDonald.

«My office's partnership with the Comptroller is designed to combat corruption in the public sector, and we will continue to work tirelessly to protect every penny of taxpayer money.»

As Shadow Chancellor he focused on reducing waste in the public sector.

Clearly it is undoubtedly the former, as it is directly affecting the job and pay prospects of a base of union members that is predominantly and increasingly concentrated in the public sector.

Some board members have also questioned whether the corporation should continue to use the «preferred developer» approach — unusual in the public sector — which effectively tamps down competition by awarding one company an open - ended contract rather than bidding individual projects separately.

Continue reading «David Cameron sets out the three central arguments in the public sector pensions debate»»

Will Hutton - a harder appointment for the Right to swallow - is advising on pay differentials in the public sector.

They are more akin to benefits, and indeed there is a direct link between how public sector pensions and benefits are uprated with inflation, that people become entitled to by working in the public sector than the sort of claim someone has on a private sector pension fund.

Private sector workers don't understand why it's hard to sack someone in the public sector, says Christina Patterson in The Independent

Another bill would crack down on sexual harassment in the public sector by outlining the rights of employees and interns facing harassment, would make supervisors accountable for bad conduct they were aware of but allowed to continue, and require legislative investigations into harassment cases, which currently can stretch out for a year, to be concluded within two months.

This kind of casual attitude to spending taxpayers» cash undermines faith in the public sector and is yet more evidence of how under Labour the Audit Commission forgot that its job was to protect the public purse.»

A very good source tells ConHome that the unions have as much as # 25m to spend on campaigns to oppose cuts in the public sector workforce and in public sector pay.

And while, on average, the construction workers earn more than their union brethren in the public sector, they have the rankling perception that government unions have not shared in their recent suffering.

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, has stated that as his administration seeks to establish a world - class labour force comparable to any in the world, concerns of workers in the public sector over their remuneration must be addressed.

The construction trades unions added their muscle to the fight against budget cuts and layoffs in the public sector when they rallied at Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza and then marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall in the early afternoon on June 15 in what organizers called a «Solidarity March for the Middle Class.»

The office of the Special Prosecutor has the mandate to investigate and prosecute cases of alleged corruption under the Public Procurement Act 203 Act 63 and other corruption - related offences implicating public officers, political office holders and their accomplices in the public sector.

(She has worked in the public sector for years.)

«He has been in the public sector for a very long time,» said Molinari.

Liberal Democrats under VAT fire In an article for Channel 4 News UNISON general secretary, Dave Prentis, said the VAT rise, along with the changes in the public sector would mean a «cut in living standards for millions of ordinary workers and their families.»

The office of the Special Prosecutor will have the mandate to investigate and prosecute cases of alleged corruption under the Public Procurement Act 203 Act 63 and other corruption - related offenses implicating public officers, political office holders and their accomplices in the public sector.

I am happy you have been elected I have an issue about pensions and retirement, which is the main topic at the moment, as I work in the public sector Here it is... Hope you are well

The Bill defines the modalities for the appointment and operations of the Special Prosecutor, which will have the mandate to investigate and prosecute cases of alleged corruption under the Public Procurement Act 203 Act 63 and other corruption - related offenses implicating public officers, political office holders and their accomplices in the public sector.

The massive growth in public sector employment and the quangocracy.

The move was denounced as a «democratic outrage» by the TUC, who said it would effectively end the right to strike in the public sector at a time when Conservatives are planning pay restraint and large - scale job cuts.

Union militancy is back and in the public sector.

The pain for millions of workers in the public sector will continue as they lose automatic pay rises awarded for time served.

Ensure full citizenship rights to Ghanaians Abroad so that they can vote and serve in public sector positions.

Obviously there was no need to give anyone in the public sector a pay rise because they were all fundamentally lazy and, worse still, more likely to vote Labour.

To handle the situation various - even non-socialist - parties try the socialist way: create needless jobs and maintain the human workforce as high as it can be in public sector.

But Sustain has revealed food procurement in the public sector leaves much to be desired on these issues.

But Chris Williamson, chief economist at financial information company Markit, expressed pessimism on the country's employment prospects, saying: «The unemployment rate is likely to continue to rise in coming months as job losses in the public sector are accompanied by lower payroll numbers in private sector services and construction.

In the event both stayed in the public sector.

The government is failing to create jobs, while cutting thousands of posts in the public sector.

Speaking at the 2017 Ghana Economic Forum, on Monday, August 7, 2017, Senior Minister said «the public sector is full in terms of employment [and] we can't employ anybody in the public sector.»

There were only 14,170 officer grade staff working in public sector prisons in June 2014, compared to over 24,000 at the end of August 2010.

The number of officers in public sector prisons has been cut by 41 % in less than four years, according to new figures obtained by penal reformers.

«Scandals and perceived corruption in governance and the society generally, socio - economic hardships such as unstable currency, unstable power supplies — undermining both industrial and domestic ventures — executive bureaucratic delays in the public sector, especially at the ports, many industrial actions, protest demonstrations throughout the economy, sudden and high tariff increases for utilities, and ever - bloating national debt stock, have hall - marked the out - going year,» he observed.

«The core offender management tasks of the Probation Service, for example offender report writing, offender supervision and breach proceedings, will remain in the public sector for the next three years,» he told the House.

Buttressing the above position, Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum of United Arab Emirate while expressing his frustration working with the public sector remarked that «Whoever belief he can propose an action plan aimed at achieving excellence in the public sector and expect to hear the management shouting, let us go for it «simply does not know this institutions.

«These worrying figures show that the private sector is not yet creating enough jobs to make up for the posts that are being cut in the public sector.»

For the future, continuing modernisation and investment will be needed by the Royal Mail in the public sector.»