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After leaving South Yorkshire, Boris Johnson went on to make a speech at an electric taxi factory near Coventry.
Theresa May’s parting shot as Prime Minister could well be a big giveaway: according to reports, the government is expected to announce major public sector pay rises on Monday, worth £2 billion a year.
A million public sector workers are to benefit from their biggest pay rise for almost a decade after the long-running pay cap was scrapped, as unions and the opposition accused the government of a “PR stunt”. Teachers will be the biggest winners, with up to 3.5% more, while prison officers, members of the armed forces…
Not so much a gap – more of a chasm: the difference in gender pay across the public sector is worse than those revealed so far by private firms, according to new figures. Today is the final deadline for public bodies to reveal pay levels for men and women – and it reveals a startling…
The one thing public sector workers were hoping for from today’s budget was a pay rise after caps and freezes over the last seven years. There were also calls for dramatic changes to Universal Credit after people had been left for weeks without any money at all.
Theresa May is reported to be considering an end to seven years of what’s called the public sector pay cap, but which, at 1%, has in fact been for many a freeze or a real-terms cut. This autumn, the Treasury will tell pay bodies what their remit is for next year’s pay awards.
Two of the people involved in the protests over hospital workers pay in London, cleaner Malgorzata Sacewicz and porter Len Hockey, explain why they were taking strike action.
Philip Hammond has said public sector workers are ten percent better off than their private sector counterparts once pensions are taken into account. The Chancellor refused to deny he told Cabinet colleagues that public sector staff were “overpaid” as he was challenged by his Labour shadow to live on the wages of a hospital…
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have once again clashed over pay for public sector workers. At Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Corbyn accused the PM of “recklessly exploiting the goodwill of public servants”.
Conservative MP and former GP, Sarah Wollaston, says pay is affecting nurse recruitment.
Downing Street has insisted there won’t be a change of heart over public sector pay, as more high-profile Conservatives join calls to lift the 1% cap on annual pay rises. Policing Minister Nick Hurd told MPs that paying frontline workers fairly was under “active discussion”. Earlier the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson claimed wages could be…
Gary Gibbon
Is No. 10 letting expectations on public sector pay get out of control? Cabinet ministers are dropping hints all over the place that the cap will go – but how soon can that happen?
Ministers pressure the government to lift the 1% cap on public sector pay amid the growing unease with austerity – and warnings that health service workers will ‘vote with their feet’ unless the pay freeze is tackled.
The Grenfell Tower disaster dominated the first Prime Minister’s Questions since the election. But it was the noises coming from Downing Street that were making the headlines as a Government source briefed journalists that a reversal of the public sector pay freeze could be on the cards – a briefing dismissed barely three hours later.
The Prime Minister David Cameron writes to Parliamentary authorities opposing a pay hike for MPs of nearly £7,000, but how does this compare to pay rises for public sector workers?