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Top public sector pay needs pruning Cutting the fiscal deficit means tough action on salaries, and the Public Sector Rich List shows those at the top must take a lead The outlook for pay in the public sector is getting grimmer and grimmer...That isn't...
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Irish police to join picket lines for first time Public sector workers stage one-day general strike in protest at government cuts plan Gardai on duty in Dublin in April. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Irish police officers will today man picket lines for...
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Premier Dalton McGuinty said unpaid days are a possibility for public sector workers. Premier Dalton McGuinty has given his strongest hint yet that unpaid days off are looming for public sector workers as the government fights a $24.7 billion deficit...
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Shadow chancellor George Osborne told delegates he would freeze public sector pay, cut tax credits for higher earners and raise the retirement age. Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, said Mr Osborne was being honest about what needed to be done.
Tags: public sector, Shadow Chancellor, sector workers, George Osborne, pay freeze, sector pay, Manchester
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The government tonight announced it was recommending either a pay freeze or 1% increase next year for 750,000 public sector workers, including doctors, prison officers, dentists and civil servants. A total freeze is being...
Tags: public sector, pay freeze, George Osborne, sector workers, retirement aged, pensions aged, Alistair Darling, Britain, Shadow Chancellor, civil servants, United Kingdom, London
Union leaders are warning of possible industrial action after Alistair Darling failed to rule out a pay freeze for public sector workers. The Chancellor said wage levels for Government staff, which will be announced within weeks, would have to reflect...
Tags: public sector, sector pay, pay freeze, sector workers, Exchequer Alistair Darling, public finances
Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding is taking a 15 per cent pay cut and has asked other parliamentarian to follow suit. He announced that decision as he outlined a number of measures that will go into effect, including a freeze on the wages of civil...
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was beginning to be won over by the pressure from his Cabinet pals Ed Balls and Alistair Darling to show some humility for the economic disaster facing Britain, Brown chucked his toys out of the pram and went into deep denial, blaming everyone but himself...
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The recapitalisation plan, which is set to be unveiled later this week, doubles the amount Dublin had originally said it would invest in Allied Irish Banks (AIB) and Bank of Ireland. “There is a small bit of tinkering yet to be done,” said the source,...
Tags: Bank of Ireland, Brian Cowen, public spending, sector workers, public sector
A nationwide strike Thursday by French public and private sector workers fearful about the global economic crisis shut down rail and subway lines, choked public services and left millions of schoolchildren without their teachers across the country.
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