True dialogue is not a life jacket when the boat is sinking. It is the boat itself and the very careful crafting required to hold it together when the storm of diversity inevitably crashes it about.....We can and almost certainly must cut the wage bill, as we must cut all costs, including those in the sheltered private sectors from whence hail many of those crying for cuts in the public side. At the heart of the debate on public sector wages is a confusion about how to cut the bill. ..well maybe...and its just an opinion...We can do this in one of three ways: We can reduce headcount, we can reduce the nominal wages of those employed or we can do both. In fact, headcount is being reduced.....Cutting wage levels again will fall disproportionately on the lower paid, as that is where the larger numbers are. Cutting the nominal wage level seems to be the preferred option of those advocating a revisiting although it would be refreshingly honest if they simply came out and said “cut public wage levels”. But where? 60% of wages are paid to those earning less than....Will we have to reduce the overall public sector pay bill? We will. Will this best be achieved by cutting nominal wage levels? Highly unlikely. Will the dreary code-worded dance continue absent a rational debate? Certainly...#PublicWageBillDebate
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:11:23 +0000
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