Big freeze starts to hit public sector pay

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Big freeze starts to hit public sector pay

More than one million nurses, midwives and other NHS staff face losing a promised pay rise in the first sign of a wage squeeze for public sector workers, according to a report today by The Times newspaper.

“Pay freezes, or at best minimal rises, are also expected for thousands of senior civil servants, and government ministers, as Britain prepares for its first period of deflation for 50 years,” The Times says. “An announcement on most pay deals was expected tomorrow, but such is the current uncertainty about ‘content and timing’ in Whitehall that a final decision may be delayed for three weeks, according to officials.”

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Title: "Big freeze starts to hit public sector pay", The Times, 24 March 2009.

Availability: Read the front page story online at www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5963352.ece.