Although the two parties will hold talks tomorrow, Gordon Brown has made it clear he will not sanction
large public sector pay deals which risk exacerbating inflation.
Not exact matches
Large public sector trade unions the GMB and PCS fail to advertise on their membership forms that subscription fees include an optional levy let alone giving them the right to opt - in or opt - out of
paying.
If
public sector workers are given a bigger
pay rise than the 1 % promised by the Government, it will lead to «debts ever
larger for our children and our grandchildren to have to
pay off», a senior minister said.
Large majorities think many
public sector workers should be given
pay rises above one per cent, and most Labour voters think their party should support strike action if
pay demands are not met, according to my latest poll.
Teachers at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the
largest teachers» union in the UK, have condemned the Coalition Government's attacks on the
pay of
public sector workers, which has seen teachers»
pay cut by almost 15 %.
Responding to the report published today by Policy Exchange arguing for reform of the
public sector pay and pensions frameworks, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the
largest teachers» union, said: «This report appears to be another example of supporters of the Coalition Government seeking to rally support for localised
pay in the face of a dearth of evidence to back up the Coalition's proposals for the abolition of national
pay frameworks for
public services.
The NASUWT, the
largest teachers» union in the UK, today contributed to the debate on
public sector pay at the TUC Congress in Liverpool.
The GMB, the UK's third
largest union behind Unite and Unison, has pledged to «outlaw» Progress, arguing that it has worked to promote its own parliamentary candidates and has pressed the Labour leadership to accept
public sector pay restraint.
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.
As one of the UK's
largest employers, the
public sector has a vital role to play in leading the way to tackle the gender
pay gap which is why the DfE's step to publish our gender
pay gap matters.»
That's not a surprise since many of the city's
largest employers are in the well -
paying public sector.
Affecting a
large cross section of private and
public sector employers, the ramifications of today's ground - breaking ruling, which is that overtime should be included in the calculations for holiday
pay, could result in significant costs affecting an estimated 400,000 firms.
Given that employees would become aware of compensation trends in their workplaces based on the content of the
pay transparency reports, those
larger and
public sector employers would likely face an increase in demands for
pay increases by their employees.