The Conservatives would tear up gold - plated pension deals for highly
paid public sector workers as part of a wider spending squeeze.
• What I've picked up from the Liberal Democrat conference so far is that Nick Clegg wants to cut the pay of classroom assistants, home helps, lollipop men and women and other low -
paid public sector workers, to means test middle - class mums to decide whether they deserve child benefit, and to keep tuition fees.
«These are the same people who protected their own pension scheme but cut the pensions of the lowest -
paid public sector workers,» he added.
This line was attached by Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS, who said rising poverty was in part fuelled by the strict pay deals imposed on low
paid public sector workers.
The list put him as the fourth best -
paid public sector worker on a salary of # 245,000.
Not exact matches
Hammond, who has faced calls from fellow cabinet ministers to scrap the 1 % freeze on
public sector pay increases, said that the government must continue the «right balance» between what is fair for
workers and taxpayers.
The British government assured employees working on the company's
public -
sector contracts that they'd be
paid, but no such promises were made to
workers on Carillion's contracts in the private
sector.
The source said the
pay cap was brought in to «deal with the mess we inherited from Labour» and acknowledged the «hard work and sacrifice» made by
public sector workers, saying jobs had been protected and the deficit reduced by three quarters.
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.
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.
There are particular questions here about the fate of union
workers whose
pay and benefits are set by multi-year collective bargaining agreements and
public sector workers whose
pay is set by law.
Further to my earlier post showing that the
public / private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized workers and non racialized workers exists almost entirely in the private sector and not in the public s
public / private
sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal
pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian
Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized workers and non racialized workers exists almost entirely in the private sector and not in the public s
Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the
pay gap between Canadian born racialized
workers and non racialized
workers exists almost entirely in the private
sector and not in the
public s
public sector.
Portugal has addressed its
public debt problem — the deficit was 9.3 % of GDP in 2009 — with a 5 %
pay cut for
public sector workers earning more than $ 1,500 a month and an increase in VAT.
Lets just say this, using the census data, controlling on 4 digit occupation (NocS), gender and age, there is less than a 2 % difference in average annual
pay, between private and
public sector workers working within similar occupations.
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.
Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all
workers are entitled to
paid sick leave, investing in
public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting
pay equity legislation that covers the private
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
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American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50
paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private
sector workers and 17 percent of
public workers reported that they had access to
paid maternity leave through their employer.
In order to win next year, Cameron needs to persuade at least some of the millions of
public sector workers currently living under a one per cent
pay freeze that their living standards will improve as well.
«The shadow chancellor has wrapped up
public sector cuts,
public sector pay freezes, a rise in retirement age and reduced pension rights in warm words that will ring hollow with Britain's army of
public sector workers.»
Final salary schemes are unfair to lower
paid workers as they disproportionately benefit
public sector executives.
This plan is based not on economics but on politics, and is focussed on making hard working
public sector workers pay for the irresponsibility of city bankers.
«Regional
pay penalising
public sector workers in the north - no.
Per the validation,
public sector workers are able to know whether they will be
paid at the end of the month or not and by how much.
«We could not even think of abolishing the 50p rate on the rich while at the same time I am asking many of our
public sector workers to accept a
pay freeze to protect their jobs.
The government, at the last quarter of 2015, after a series of meetings of the National Tripartite Committee (NTC) comprising government, employers» association, organized labour and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) announced a 10 percent
pay rise for
public sector workers across the country.
«Stuck in a familiar groove, Len goes on to suggest that all the ills that he claims are befalling Labour are because of actions of so called «Blairites» — those terrible people who introduced the minimum wage and increased the number, the stature and indeed the
pay of
public sector workers across the country.»
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.
Resisting the temptation to offer a traditional pre-election bribe, Osborne also announced that he was continuing with a freeze on
public sector pay until 2017, meaning
public sector workers will have seen their
pay held back below inflation for seven years.
Gov. Cuomo, backed by labor leaders including UFT President Michael Mulgrew (center), signs legislation at UFT headquarters to reduce the number of services that New York's
public sector unions are obligated to provide to
workers who do not
pay to support those services.
Local parties and trade unions chose Grenfell Tower, rail services, growth and investment,
public sector pay,
workers» rights, the NHS, housing and social care as the eight topics for full debate and votes, with Brexit motions failing to win the necessary backing.
Britain's top earners should «contribute a little bit more» so
public sector workers can have «decent
pay», the head of a trade union told Good Morning Britain.
Public sector workers in Britain have gone on strike today in a row over
pay, pensions, conditions, jobs and spending cuts.
Over a million
public sector workers are set to take industrial action against the government in a series of rows over
pay, pensions, jobs, conditions and spending cuts, according to union figures.
This demonstrates that most
workers in the
public sector do not want to lose a day's
pay by striking but are being forced to do so by a minority in their union who have been wound up by the militant and ideologically - driven desires of union barons.
Public sector workers are striking today over a row on
pay, conditions, pensions and spending cuts.
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.
In the age of austerity, where we'll be asking frontline
public sector workers to help us keep
pay levels down we can not leave the
pay of
public sector bureaucrats untouched.
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.
Under the nominal spending trick,
public sector workers have been getting
pay rises fthe whole time.
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.
«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.»
A senior Labour backbencher is attempting to force George Osborne to deliver on a # 250
pay rise promise for up to a million
public sector workers.
Public sector workers will be shocked and angry that they are the innocent victims of job cuts and
pay freezes,» he said.
«This change represents nothing more than naked raiding of
public service
workers» pensions to make them
pay the price for the greed and recklessness of the financial
sector.
This is an indication that if Labour were in power now, while they wouldn't be cutting so hard and fast, they would effectively cut the
pay of
public sector workers.
Controversial UK Government plans to introduce different
pay rates for
public sector workers in different parts of the UK have so far dominated today's meeting of the Welsh Grand Committee.
He said the deficit was still too high, which is why
public sector workers face another year of
pay restraint and welfare spending will be capped from 2015.
The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP went on to take the opportunity to call for increased
pay for
public sector workers.