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BobQ

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Pay ranges were not inflated but many public sector staff would have continued to have automatic increments. Those staff who were at the top of their pay scales were really the only ones subject to a freeze. This policy was at a time when many staff in the private sector were losing jobs, pay rates were not increasing and soem firms had pay cuts.

There was a major public sector pay inflation under the last labour government and as was said "they spent all the money".

The spending review news puzzles me - the pay round for a number of public sector services has already made a connection between increments and peformance from this year on. I still expect however that most staff will get them. The public sector does not have the systems in place to manage differentiating on achievement of objectives fairly (for the umpteen thousand employed) on an individual basis, and it beggars belief that any (for example) hospital Chief Exec is going to brag that they saved a fortune on increments as their staff did not progress because lots staff were of poor quality. There will be some where increments are withheld and they are in a performance improvement/management process...but not enough to make a dent in the Chancellors savings goals.

Ah the myth that Performance Related Pay is the solution!

It did not work for the Bankers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J9i50reMN8

Or the rest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feDJ3zL23qw

OldFartPlumber

In the NHS the lunatics are running the asylum - someone should tell them the asylum shut in the 1980`s