One union said 'An offer below inflation is a cut by another name'.
Ahead of the announcements, ministers conceded that pay awards would not keep pace with rising prices, but argued that doing so would fuel inflation.Setting public sector pay for this year was one of the big outstanding decisions facing Prime Minister Boris Johnson before he is due to leave office in September.have voted to go on strike in a dispute over pay, with other public sector unions threatening industrial action.
And the National Education Union has said it will ballot teachers over their pay aware in England, raising the prospect of industrial action in schools later this year."The so-called wage offer amounts to a massive national pay cut," she said. "We expected the inevitable betrayal but the scale of it is an affront."Over one million staff will have a pay rise of at least £1,400 this year backdated to April 2022Eligible dentists and doctors will receive a 4.
"Recruitment and retention problems are now severe across the public sector and ministers are failing to invest in the services that the economic recovery needs." The government sets pay on a UK-wide level in some areas, such as for the armed forces, while in others - such as health and education - it is set by ministers in the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
All four remaining candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Tory leader and prime minister - Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch - have ruled out an across-the-board above-inflation pay rise for public sector workers.falling at the fastest rate since 2001Before taking account of inflation, average total pay growth for March to May 2022 was 7.2% in the private sector and 1.5% in the public sector.
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