Sentences with phrase «limiting public sector pay»

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But Prime Minister Callaghan then urged that the government make further concessions to the unions, including «exemptions from the 5 per cent pay limit, tighter price controls and extension of the principle of «comparability,» under which public sector workers could expect more money.

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.

«It has to be seen in the context of the decision to limit public sector workers» pay increases to one per cent and the fact that some private sector workers have had their pay cut.»

When workers in the private sector are facing pay restraint, a 1 % average limit on annual increases is necessary to minimise public sector job losses.

Mr. Woodley also expressed his disappointment that with the forecasts for economic growth and low inflation there was nothing in the Budget to indicate a relaxation on the artificially low public sector pay limits.

But freezing public sector pay and pensions and limiting tax credits for the middle classes met with a cooler response.

«The Chancellor made many welcome announcements in the Spending Review, including the 1 % limit to public sector pay growth and the intention to curtail automatic pay progression - regardless of performance - within the public sector.

Mr Brown said he would continue his strong stance on «sometimes quite controversial issues» like the 42 - day limit pre-charge detention for terror suspects or public sector pay.

From dodgy contractors, paid cash in hand, to paragons of public sector respectability like executives at the BBC and the Department of Health, paid through limited companies.

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.»

However the overall cash envelope handed to schools for teacher pay will stay within the Government's one per cent limit on public sector pay.

But for the past seven years decisions have been determined by the government's limit on public sector pay.