The
independent pay review bodies will look at how public sector pay can be made «more responsive» to local markets - making the regional economies more «balanced».
A Number 10 source said the Government was responding to the recommendations of public
sector pay review bodies which are currently reporting to ministers «on a case - by - case basis».
Details of other public sector pay awards have also been revealed following the recommendations of a number of
different pay review bodies.
The recent NHS
pay review body report estimated that by 2019 nurse pay will be 20 % lower in real terms than in 2010 when inflation is measured using Retail Price Index (RPI) and 12 % lower on the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
According to the Observer, Mr Hunt is to demand an end to the 1 % pay cap for nurses and other health workers, citing evidence from the Government's own
NHS pay review body published in March.
In a statement by the NAHT, it says: «The evidence from our organisations of a growing crisis in recruiting and retaining teachers and school leaders means that the STRB must take this opportunity to fully exercise its functions as the independent
pay review body for the profession.
A MoD spokesperson said: «Armed forces pay is recommended by the independent Armed
Forces Pay Review Body (AFPRB).
Commenting on the publication of the 26th Report of the School Teachers» Review Body for England and Wales, and the Government's acceptance of all its recommendations, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT the largest teachers» union in the UK, said «We welcome the Report of the independent
pay Review Body in studying the evidence on the impact of pay on teacher recruitment and retention.
A Government source said the Foreign Secretary wants a wage boost for public sector workers and believes the recommendations of independent
pay review bodies which back increases should be followed.
As Chancellor, George Osborne
asked pay review bodies to look at the case for ending national pay deals in the public sector so that public sector salaries were brought down to the level of the private sector in each region.
It appears he has the backing of Mr Gove, who told the Sunday Times: «You've got to listen to the public
sector pay review bodies.
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Pay Review Bodies for senior levels in the civil service, the judiciary and other senior posts.
We are also accepting in full from 1 May this year the Armed
Forces Pay Review Body's recommended increase in the so - called X Factor payment made to military personnel to recognise the particular sacrifices they make.
«My colleagues who deal with
these pay review bodies would want to respect the integrity of that process.»
A source close to Johnson said: «He supports the idea of public - sector workers getting a better pay deal and believes the findings of
the pay review bodies should be respected.»
Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the government «should listen to
the pay review bodies who govern each individual area of public sector pay,» and that ministers should respect the «integrity» of the pay review process.
We are today publishing the reports we commissioned from
the pay review bodies on market - facing pay.
Look at the hypocrisy of a government which scrapped the independent
pay review body that protected some of the poorest for a hundred years, the Agricultural Wages Board, yet founds an independent pay review body to give MPs a # 6,500 pay rise and dishes out tax givebacks to billionaires.»
Twenty - five Liberal Democrat backbenchers have endorsed a submission to
Pay Review bodies and the...
This comes on the same day that Nick Clegg has said the Liberal Democrats in Government would issue guidance to public sector
pay review bodies to ensure pay increases at least in line with inflation in 2016/17 and 2017/18.
Part of this scene is the six
Pay Review Bodies, that themselves cover a third of the public sector workforce.
It also criticised the government's controversial decision to stage public sector pay awards, warning savings will be modest and on - off, do little to fight inflation and undermine the credibility of
the pay review body process.
«I said it was a mistake of Jeremy Hunt to reject
the pay review bodies but I also... said I can make no commitment now to find additional money to pay for that.
I think it should be a basic principle that you honour
those pay review body recommendations because that is what the public wants and that is what the health service needs».
Health Sec Jeremy Hunt says
the Pay Review Body recommendation of 1 % for all NHS staff was «unaffordable» & risked «quality of patient care»
«The numbers show that potentially 6,000 nurses would be laid off if we accepted
the pay review body's recommendations, and that's not a risk I'm prepared to take for patients.»
The Pay Review Body has looked carefully at the issue and the Government should not have rejected its advice and gone further than a one per cent cap, which the Chancellor himself announced.
They are protesting about the decision not to implement a 1 % rise for all staff recommended by
a pay review body.
They were protesting about the decision not to implement a 1 % rise for all staff recommended by
a pay review body.
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The pay review body is an independent organisation and we urge it not to be bullied by the government and to make its own decisions on pay, based on all the evidence,» Meldrum said.
Treasury chief secretary Greg Hands said in a letter to
pay review bodies that there should be «no expectation'that all workers would receive the rise, despite a government commitment in the Budget last month.
Sources have said that the government will listen to evidence of
the pay review bodies, before delivering findings in autumn.
Sources said the government will «listen to evidence of
the pay review bodies» this summer, before delivering findings in the autumn.
But a Conservative spokesman flatly disputed the account, saying: «All
the pay review body reports are being dealt with in the usual way.
The pay review body said there was a «real risk that schools will not be able to recruit and retain a workforce of high quality teachers to support pupil achievement».
He criticised that
the pay review body «had its hands tied» and could not recommend a pay award «based on the evidence».