Sentences with phrase «over public sector pay»

The government was yesterday warned against «macho posturing» over public sector pay, as union leaders criticised proposals to offer workers three - year pay deals.

Gordon Brown was today warned his «discipline» over public sector pay could see more public sector workers walk out.

The unions are threatening to take coordinated action over public sector pay.

The TUC has voted at its annual Congress to support co-ordinated strike action over a public sector pay freeze.

Assistant General Secretary of the TUC, Paul Nowak was optimistic about public support for Thursday's strike over public sector pay, and said: «We believe Britain needs a pay rise - and that applies whether you work in the private or the public sector.»

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

Not exact matches

The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg reported a clear split among May's most senior colleagues over whether the Conservative government should reverse its position on public sector pay increases.

LONDON — Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that Britain needs a «grown - up» debate over whether pay for public sector workers should be increased, arguing that the government must «hold its nerve» on austerity.

IG Metall's campaign follows a 6.3 per cent pay increase over two years secured for 2m public sector workers last month by Ver.di, the services union, after weeks of stoppages.

As shown in a recent study for the Broadbent Institute by the Centre for Spatial Economics, well - chosen public investment projects can pay for themselves over time by increasing private sector productivity and thus the future tax base.

«It is one of the reasons why public sector pay has risen at twice the rate of private sector pay over the last four years.»

The row began over the weekend when shadow chancellor Ed Balls said a future Labour government would retain the coalition's pay squeeze on public sector workers.

The claim earlier today began a confrontation between Labour and the government over whether making public sector contracts conditional on the living wage being paid is legal under EU law.

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Addressing Labour's annual conference in Brighton, John McDonnell said it was a «scandal» that PFI deals will see nearly # 200 billion paid to private companies from the public sector over the next few decades.

Public sector workers in Britain have gone on strike today in a row over pay, pensions, conditions, jobs and spending cuts.

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Public sector workers are striking today over a row on pay, conditions, pensions and spending cuts.

But those moves will do little to alleviate public anger over the rise, which is well above the one per cent pay rise being received by public sector workers.

Is it because the public sector pay freeze and rising unemployment means that average earnings will be less than inflation over the next two years?

The government currently faces a backbench rebellion over its attempts to force MPs to accept a 1.9 per cent pay rise, putting them on a par with public sector workers such as police and prison officers.

The Alliance says those appearing in the list received a pay increase of 4.6 per cent, over double the government's target for public sector wage inflation.

They have asked: if they are prepared to threaten strike action that could see six airports closed over a one per cent pay increase, what will they do when the cuts to the public sector as ushered in later this year?

The rumours over Ed Miliband leadership continued throughout the week, as trade unions attacked him for backing coalition rules for public sector pay.

After Jeremy Corbyn had finished interrogating the prime minister over disability cuts and public sector pay, the wildcard Conservative backbencher Michael Fabricant popped up to ask a question.

Glaser says health - care benefits are «out of alignment» with private sector, as well as other states and federal benefits, and noted that there had been 14 percent increase in pay for public employees over the years.

We have therefore agreed that there will need to be: - a significantly accelerated reduction in the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes; - arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and - protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

Around 70,000 public sector workers in Wales join a one - day strike over pay, pensions and working conditions.

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.

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Public sector workers are taking part in a series of strikes across the country over disputes involving pay, pensions and cuts.

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Fights over to what extent the county is responsible for paying the full cost of employees» health care have sprung up recently after heated negotiations between the Astorino administration and the Civil Service Employees Association, CSEA — a union representing the county's public sector workers — failed to produce a compromise, including a contract offer that the union rejected earlier this month.

Over the next decade the price of the financial / economic mess we are in will be paid in public sector cuts — better to cut the non-productive audit and bureaucratic command and control regimes (and I include the quangos, central government departments and the consequent costs in local government) than front line services.

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MORI's poll asked if people supported strike action by «people in a numbre of public sector jobs» over job cuts, pay levels and pension reductions — they found 48 % in support, 48 % against (Ipsos MORI, 19th June.)

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It said: «The union's concern about the political direction of the Government, as well as the industrial concerns over continued calls for pay restraint in the public and private sectors while inflation busts through the Government's targets.

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.

More than a million public sector workers are expected to strike in a series of disputes with the government over pay, pensions and job cuts.

Across the UK, more than a million public sector workers took part in the industrial action, thought to be the biggest over pay since the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition came to power in May 2010.

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

The proposed inspections would aim to establish whether the same standards expected in the state sector are being met in over 1,200 fee - paying schools across the UK, including major public schools such as Eton and Harrow.

Over 6 million public sector workers are not covered by Social Security, including about 1.2 million public school teachers; in 15 states, public sector workers do not pay into or receive benefits from the system.

The public sector pay squeeze is leaving teachers over # 5,000 a year worse off in real terms in comparison to 2010.

More likely, over time, the measure will lay the groundwork for introducing more private - sector innovations, such as merit pay and the elimination of tenure and salary schedules, into public education in Colorado.

Teacher pay growth has lagged behind that of the wider public sector in most years over the last decade, and there are concerns that it has contributed to current recruitment and retention problems.

The public sector apprenticeship target was introduced in tandem with the apprenticeship levy, which forces schools and trusts with a payroll of over # 3 million to pay a 0.5 - per - cent tax into a central pot each year.

The Legislature has handed the charter sector major victories over the last two sessions, boosting the charter cap and forcing the city to pay rent for charters that can not be housed in a public space.

Until recently this has been the pervasive public sector approach under which pay has generally increased automatically over time.