Sentences with phrase «sector wage freeze»
His statement this weekend, at the Fabian conference, that he endorses Osborne's public sector wage freeze until the end of this Parliament — possibly 3.5 years away — and accepts all the government's spending cuts finally crosses a red line.
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To the extent that conservatives succeed in reducing fiscal woes to a case of runaway spending, politicians find it easier to address budget shortfalls with public sector furlough days, wage freezes, layoffs and benefit cuts than with progressive tax increases that, many economists conclude, would cause the least harm to the recovery.
A source close to the mayor said: «It is impossible to justify spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on pensions at a time of severe public sector cuts and wage freezes.
This is hardly surprising, but it's also worth noting that the WFP has agreed to embrace Cuomo's «New NY Agenda» — a condition laid out by the AG in order for him to accept the party's nod — which includes a property tax cap, creation of another pension tier and a wage freeze for public employees, among other proposals of which many unions (mostly the progressive and public sector types) aren't fond.