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Public sector pay ‘must be fair’

Posted on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 and is filed under UK News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Public sector pay must be "fair" to private-sector employees facing a recession-fuelled squeeze on wages, Chancellor Alistair Darling said after a spending watchdog called for a freeze. Asked if he backed the calls from Audit Commission chief executive Steve Bundred for £5 billion savings to be found from the wage bill, he said: "Public sector pay obviously has got to reflect prevailing conditions, and in particular inflation has come way down. "And of course we have got to be fair with regard to people who work in the private sector, many of whom have seen their pay conditions somewhere near freeze." Mr Bundred wrote in The Observer that real-terms pay cuts…

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