Sentences with phrase «paid public sector staff»

No - one really wanted to set out where the cuts will hit, and we had diversionary tactics such as talking about public sector pensions for the few very well paid public sector staff that won't make any real contribution to reducing the deficit.

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«To help get that revolution started in the public sector, working with the Cabinet Office, I've been pushing hard for radical reforms to the way in which the Civil Service pays and supports its staff after their children are born.

As they have in Ireland, senior staff in the public sector need to show leadership so they can deliver pay restraint needed from ordinary workers.

Providers of government «work programmes» will be paid by results, but in a recession, where the economy is stagnant, the public sector is shedding staff and 20 % of young people are unemployed, it's hard to see where the millions of extra jobs that will be needed to deliver these «results» are going to come from.

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.

Public sector workers say the government pay freeze will demoralise staff as workloads increase due to recession

«But a centralised pay cap on public sector staff is unfair, inefficient and will damage long - established independent review systems - which already take affordability into account.

But Government sources said these were merely guidelines, and it would not require legislation to tear them The plans would allow a new employer to transfer public sector staff to a less generous contributory scheme where they pay into a pot with no final guarantees.

It said higher paid NHS staff already pay proportionally more for their pensions than most other public sector workers.

Teachers and other public sector workers have been warned that the one per cent pay rise promised to public sector staff is not guaranteed.

«Their promise to lift their own cap on public sector pay is meaningless without new, ring - fenced funding to ensure that teachers, as well as support staff, can finally get a real pay rise after years of cuts.»

Pay caps and job pressures have reportedly fuelled staff shortages across the public sector.

Labour says it will end the public sector pay cap, but has not said how much money schools will receive in order to help them grant pay rises to their staff.