Public Pay to be brought in line with Private

[maviczap]

They could save loads of money by moving jobs out of London, and not paying London weighting.

With modern technology why do we need so many public sector jobs in London.

[MisterTommyH]

My misunderstanding then.

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Originally Posted by Tommy H

My misunderstanding then.

There a lot of it about

[MisterTommyH]

But it was definatly something about the pay gap differing in the regions.....

To be honest, they can fix most of this by just sacking a lot of the managers and replacing them with cheap frontline workers. More cops, nurses, tekkas, etc and less weird bean counting tossers. The amount of red tape and cack in this country makes it impossible to do most things properly now. My lass was in hospital the other day there was no where near enough staff to look after people but seemed to be plenty of random staff kicking about doing stuff.

I expect he will cut the high tax rate too and move it back to 40% because the top earners are in reality paying almost all of the tax now and keeping the country afloat! Scary times.

Originally Posted by Tommy H

But it was definatly something about the pay gap differing in the regions.....

Is it not that the pay is the same but the expense of living in different regions differs? Example, a lollipop lady in London central gets what is fair salary for their job considering cost of living etc, but this sets the bar for lollipop ladies all over the country even though their cost of living is much lower.
I could be wrong (again lol) but that was my take on it anyway.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Owenski

Is it not that the pay is the same but the expense of living in different regions differs? Example, a lollipop lady in London central gets what is fair salary for their job considering cost of living etc, but this sets the bar for lollipop ladies all over the country even though their cost of living is much lower.
I could be wrong (again lol) but that was my take on it anyway.

Yes, all Lollipop ladies should be on the same flat pay scale as an example.

Same as Police, Fireman, Nurse etc.

But ones living in London get London weighting added to their salary.

A lollipop lady in Cardiff may have a higher wage than her public sector equivalent because the basic salary is higher.

It all depends on the contract offered too. We were under the impression of a 5% pay rise coming in april but they put figures out why we could only have 3% which was fair enough but when the contract swings into their favour i hope it's remembered we took in effect a 2% less pay rise. Also we are having our fixed overtime hours cut too so swings and roundabouts.

[Biker Biggles]

Actually this government is hell bent on slashing all ordinary workers wages and it cant do that effectively unless it hits the public sector.Also,Im not sure private sector wages are much (if any)lower than public now.The last few years of public sector pay freezes and recent rises in average private sector rates may well have put that difference back.These things ebb and flow over the years anyway and now is no different.
What is true is that ordinary working people have only ever got better pay and conditions by fighting hard for them,and those improvements only get maintained if people are prepared to continue to fight.There may be trouble ahead-------

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Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

.There may be trouble ahead-------

Aye, one thing Maggie didn't do was pick a fight with the Police, which this Govenment has.

In the blue corner 'The Home Secretary' in the red coner 'PC lets be avinya'