Sentences with phrase «senior public sector pay»

The Conservatives have attacked the government for proposing a freeze on senior public sector pay in the middle of their party conference.

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The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg reported a clear split among May's most senior colleagues over whether the Conservative government should reverse its position on public sector pay increases.

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.

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.

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.

The senior salaries review body (SSRB) recommends MPs vote for a pay rise of 2.56 per cent, noting that they are underpaid compared to people in comparable positions in the private and public sector.

Indeed one senior politician compared Rhodri Morgan (Carwyn's mentor in public sector studies) with Ramsay Macdonald and another loyalist Valley's MP told Carwyn directly that it was a pity that he didn't pay more attention to health and education in Wales instead of devolving police powers, with criminal justice to follow.