Sentences with phrase «public sector workers needing»

In a competitive jobs market with thousands of public sector workers needing to find work in the private sector or become self employed, these fears need to be understood and overcome.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Ethical culture overlaps with the public - service ethos: for reasons that are blandly uncontroversial (everyone wants better standards of service - quality and delivery) but also partisan and contentious (better standards in a fiscally - straightened world need to come at higher cost to public - sector workers and lower cost to tax - payers) this leads the standards agenda into highly - contested territory.

Thirdly, I think there is a lot to be learned from Catholic Social Teaching, and Labour needs to ensure that it appeals to people who are not public sector workers.

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.

Ministers need to show public sector workers — and the people who rely upon those services — that they are serious about finding a way forward.

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

Looking at the government negotiating team, Unite found an average public sector worker would need to work for three working lifetimes to earn Francis Maude's pension and two for Danny Alexander's pension.

Ros Altmann, an independent pension adviser who helped set up a rescue scheme for workers in crashed companies, said unions needed to recognise that final salary schemes were unaffordable in the private or the public sector.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

We need to be manning the picket lines and making the case for public sector workers however we can.

For that he needs to take time to persuade the public hes not going to risk public finances or make thousands of public sector workers unemployed from day 1.

A private - sector worker would need to save roughly 32 percent of his salary in a 401 (k) to match the guaranteed benefits paid to the average teacher in a public - sector DB plan.

Similarly, when it came to the idea that the feds needed to force states to act, we wrote «Prodding public sector institutions to set goals, monitor performance, and then reward excellence and address mediocrity has been a signal success for reformers on both the left and the right... Sensibly structured accountability systems encourage self - interested workers to take goals seriously, focus on outcomes, and employ all the levers at their disposal to produce those outcomes.

We need to get past discussions of size and start talking about the most effective ways to ensure retirement security for all public sector workers.

«The pay cap needs to be lifted for all public sector workers if we are to protect our public services, which are an essential part of everyone's daily life.

Public sector unions are also the facilitators of authoritarianism, because every new law and every new intrusion on civil liberties is accompanied by a need for more unionized government workers.

Furthermore, Ms. Sandy has been engaged by several Government of Ontario bodies to design and deliver Career Management training sessions and seminars in order to educate public sector employment services staff on how to best the support and facilitate the needs of Internationally Educated Professionals and Foreign - Trained Skilled Workers.

Washington, DC, July 28, 2011 — Public and private sector workers in the Northeast need more affordable housing opportunities.