Dead end for government’s public wage bill plan?
The government’s grand plan to cut the public wage bill would seem to be on a road to nowhere, at least for this year, if the unions have anything to do with it
12 March 2020 - 05:00
The government’s review of the 2018 public sector wage agreement, announced late last month, may just turn out to be a damp squib.
For all the government’s posturing and claims to be talking to labour about reviewing the deal, the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) — the bargaining council in which the agreement was struck — says the government cannot simply pull out of the deal...
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