Government submission
You can download the government's submission to the Local Government Pay Commission.
The government says pay settlements in the public sector should be consistent with the following principles:
"Settlements should support the efficient delivery of improved public services. To achieve this, settlements must, taken alongside non-pay rewards, facilitate the recruitment and retention of suitable staff, and increase their motivation. However, they must not be unnecessarily high because this would divert money intended to improve public services.
Settlements should be affordable. Settlements above inflation can only be justified where there are specific recruitment and retention problems, or where the increases will be financed by reform and modernisation changes, including efficiency and productivity savings. Earnings growth in the public sector should be in line with that being experienced in the economy as a whole.
Settlements should give consideration to alternative forms of delivery, such as e-government initiatives.
Pay systems should promote fair employment practice, including supporting diversity of staff and equal pay."
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