What are you planning on doing?
I'm not considering it yet but you never know how things may work out.
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Public sector pay since 2010
- Thread starter taleofbluehalves
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I'm not considering it yet but you never know how things may work out.
taleofbluehalves
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Bit of consultancy, bit of our own wedding business.What are you planning on doing?
I'm not considering it yet but you never know how things may work out.
Funny how MPs see fit to accept a huge hike but no-one else.
They don't set their own pay.
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blueinsa
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They don't set their own pay.
Indeed but they do vote to accept it.
It’s not great when they are imposing austerity and real wage cuts on Millions of others.
taleofbluehalves
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No but funny how they saw at a time of austerity for the country, a tiny minority saw fit for such a big salary rise. That’s not good leadership of the issue.They don't set their own pay.
Indeed but they do vote to accept it.
It’s not great when they are imposing austerity and real wage cuts on Millions of others.
They're between a rock and a hard place on this. They were told to accept an external pay review and not take a view themselves, and when they do they get slapped over it. As a separate point, MPs are woefully underpaid anyway.
crazyg
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Yet whenever public sector pay bodies produce recommendations, they are generally ignored on the basis that it would cost too much. They're all a bunch of fucking hypocrites, whichever party is in power.They don't set their own pay.
Yet whenever public sector pay bodies produce recommendations, they are generally ignored on the basis that it would cost too much. They're all a bunch of fucking hypocrites, whichever party is in power.
The government does not decide pay where public sector pay where bodies make recommendations. The agencies in charge do. That's what they're for.
crazyg
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So the Treasury (ie the government) has no say whatsoever? Pull the other one!The government does not decide pay where public sector pay where bodies make recommendations. The agencies in charge do. That's what they're for.
So the Treasury (ie the government) has no say whatsoever? Pull the other one!
Government sets the overall budgets. In the case of the NHS, it is then for the trusts to decided whether to implement pay recommendations. So the government has an indirect say, but as with anything, it is the actual employer that decides pay rates. For something like the armed forces, the government has total say. For QUANGOs, which is effectively what many of the public sector employees are part of, they do not.
I know there's this idea that they sit in cabinet and physically decide what a nurse is going to earn, but it's not even practical. Much of the public sector isn't employed by the government - huge swathes of it are employed by councils for a start. It is not a unified thing.