Sentences with phrase «year public sector pay freeze»

The government have already announced some measures to cut the deficit, like a two - year public sector pay freeze.

Not exact matches

The cap was introduced by former prime minister David Cameron in 2010 and has resulted in public sector pay being frozen at one percent rises for the last seven years.

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.

The chancellor announced plans to cap public sector pay at one per cent for two years, after the current pay freeze ends, and take steps to «rebalance» pay levels across the country.

Resisting the temptation to offer a traditional pre-election bribe, Osborne also announced that he was continuing with a freeze on public sector pay until 2017, meaning public sector workers will have seen their pay held back below inflation for seven years.

Public sector pay has been frozen for two years - one year longer than previously announced - but those earning # 18,000 or under will get assistance.

Is it because the public sector pay freeze and rising unemployment means that average earnings will be less than inflation over the next two years?

Public sector pay will be frozen for two years for those earning more than # 21,000 a year, the chancellor announced in today's Budget.

«But we've also said we're going to freeze public sector pay for a year, we've said we are going to ask people to retire a year later from 2016, we've identified some benefits like the child trust fund that we won't go on paying to better - off families.

The Financial Times suggested that in order to find additional cuts of # 30 - 40bn, the incoming government might have to cut public sector pay by 5 per cent, freeze benefits for a year, means - test child benefit, abolish winter fuel payments, and cut free TV licences and bus passes.

«He confirms that the government is grabbing money from public sector workers to pay down a deficit they did nothing to create, even at a time when their pay is frozen for two years and many are facing job losses,» he said.

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The BCC also wants an immediate two - year pay freeze on public sector pay and a complete abolition of the April 2011 rise in national insurance contributions.

Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition of its austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»

Public sector pay will be frozen for two years for staff earning over # 21,000, while the government will accelerate the increase in the state pension age to 66.

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Chancellor Georg e Osborne had triggered outrage in his 2011 Budget by confirming plans to cap public sector pay at one per cent for two years, after the current pay freeze ends, and take steps to «rebalance» pay levels across the country.

McCluskey, who launched a hard hitting attack on the Labour leadership in a Guardian article published in January following the decision in the New Year to endorse a continuation of the government's public sector pay freeze, admits that the stance has led to a fracturing of trust between Labour and trade unions.

Public sector workers will have pay frozen for two years - with the protection of 1.7 million earning less that # 21,000 who will receive a # 250 increase in both years.

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The government is accused of «scandalous» cuts to public services as the Chancellor George Osborne unveils billions of pounds worth of savings to the sector while also freezing pay for two years.

Today the government asked public sector workers to accept a two - year pay freeze, with protection for the 1.7 million public servants earning less than # 21,000.

Public sector pay rises will be capped to one for two years from 2011, while the 40 per cent income tax threshold will be frozen the following year - hitting anyone earning over # 43,000.

Dave Prentis, unison general secretary, went on Channel Four to explain the decision, saying, «Jeremy Corbyn's message has resonated with public sector workers who have suffered years of pay freezes and redundancies with too many having to work for less.»

These public sector workers claim that they are not seeing any benefit from a recovering economy and that the pay freeze and 1 % cap on a rise which they've seen in the last four years, has left them # 4,000 worse off than in 2010.

The coalition has frozen public sector pay for three years, calling it vital to help drive down the budget deficit.

The Statement also set out plans to limit pay rises in the public sector, a move that has angered the teaching profession after what the Times Educational Supplement has described as «four years of pay freezes and marginal one per cent salary increases since the coalition came into power.»

Teachers received a 1 % rise last year, after two years of salary freezes, in line with the general 1 % pay cap across the public sector.

In England, the public sector pay freeze of recent years has meant real terms pay cuts for many teachers.