Sentences with phrase «public sector staff»

Managers in the private sector prisons acknowledged that staff did not follow procedures as well as 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.

Public sector staff in eight more prisons have learned they face privatisation just two weeks after job cuts were announced by the company set to take over Birmingham prison, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

Unions are warning that «hundreds of thousands» more public sector staff could join them in the months to come.

Lord Turner added that the controversial issue of public sector staff retirement needed to be looked at.

Concerns about the «unrealistic» reforms being pushed through by the coalition prompted a walkout by teachers and other public sector staff last month.

«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.

Empowering frontline public sector staff to deliver appropriate economies complements the party's belief in (1) professionalising the public services and (2) in decentralisation.

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.

Public sector staff now face acutely declining living standards, and the UK's tax base is eroding as the two main parties combine to maintain the con that you can have European - standard public services on American - level taxes.

Leader of Public and Commercial Services Union blames reduction in public sector staff for delays

«If we need to tell the highest paid public sector staff they won't get an increase in their pensions, so that we can afford to keep teachers, nurses, policemen and women in their jobs, so be it.»

Unfortunately a number of measures that would save significant amounts of money without hitting the priorities of ordinary families haven't been taken: a freeze in the International Development budget; pay cuts for the best paid public sector staff; scrapping bodies like the Carbon Trust and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

MPs and public sector staff have a moral duty to educate their own children in state rather than private schools, a senior Labour MP has declared.

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