{"id":193131,"date":"2024-12-11T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/improve-productivity-for-more-pay-public-sector-told\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:45:30","slug":"improve-productivity-for-more-pay-public-sector-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/improve-productivity-for-more-pay-public-sector-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve productivity for more pay, public sector told"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Public sector workers will only get above inflation pay increases if they improve productivity, Downing Street has said.<\/p>\n

Unions have reacted with anger to proposals for a 2.8% pay increase for teachers, NHS staff and senior civil servants next year.<\/p>\n

The British Medical Association (BMA) said there was a “very real risk” of further industrial action if “pay erosion” was not addressed, while Unison’s Helga Pile said the proposal was a “bitter pill”.<\/p>\n

But Downing Street said it was “vital that pay awards are fair for both taxpayers and workers”.<\/p>\n

The government said departments would have to fund 2025-26 and future pay increases from their own budgets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“For pay awards to go beyond inflation they will have to be met by productivity improvements,” Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesman told reporters.<\/p>\n

Inflation – which measures price changes over time – is predicted to average 2.6% next year.<\/p>\n

The pay recommendations will now be considered by public sector pay review bodies and a final decision made by the government next year.<\/p>\n

Asked about strike threats, the PM’s spokesman said the government “clearly values” public sector workers and had given them their “first meaningful pay increases for several years in July”. <\/p>\n

But, he added, the government had been “upfront” about the need to take “tough decisions” to after inheriting a \u00a322bn “black hole” in the public finances from the previous government.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for Sir Keir said the Conservatives’ “scorched earth approach and failure of leadership” had led to strikes in the NHS.<\/p>\n

But unions say pay is still failing to keep pace with the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n

The BMA has said the recommended pay rise for 2025\/26 “indicates a poor grasp of the unresolved issues from two years of industrial action”.<\/p>\n

Royal College of Nursing general secretary and chief executive Prof Nicola Ranger described the pay recommendation as “deeply offensive”.<\/p>\n

The National Education Union said it fell “well short of the urgent action needed”.<\/p>\n

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “We all know the pressure on public finances from the mess the Tories left things in. <\/p>\n

“But as the government’s evidence acknowledges, the recruitment and retention crisis in our public sector has been driven in part by pay.”<\/p>\n

He said it was “hard to see how you address the crisis in our services without meaningful pay rises”. <\/p>\n

And he called on the government to hold a “serious conversation” with unions and workers about pay and public service reform. <\/p>\n

Asked whether there are plans for ministers to meet union general secretaries to discuss pay, Sir Keir’s spokesman said: “There will always be engagement throughout the pay review body process that is usual, and we’ll obviously conduct the process in a collaborative way.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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