Public-sector staff are in line for a pay rise as low as 2% even as inflation remains stubbornly high, ministers have suggested 🔴 Ministers have written to the bodies which recommend salary levels asking them to limit the rise of any increases next year
Workers from various unions have staged strikes to call for higher pay and the industrial action may continue into the new year Public-sector staff are in line for a pay rise as low as 2 per cent even asThe independent bodies which determine the salaries of doctors, nurses, troops, teachers and prison officers have been instructed to begin their work for next year.
But in a series of letters, the ministers responsible have warned that they must “have regard to the Government’s inflation target when forming recommendations” – suggesting they will seek to push pay increases down to 2 per cent, the official target for inflation. The Treasury will not allocate additional money to departments to help fund the wage rises, meaning that any increase must
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