{"id":68307,"date":"2016-03-08T10:57:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T10:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e7fc94ad6b6b83945492c5ad3bf91a27"},"modified":"2016-03-08T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T10:57:43","slug":"news-story-pay-awards-for-over-a-million-public-sector-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68307","title":{"rendered":"News story: Pay awards for over a million public sector workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The government has today (8 March 2016) set out the pay awards for over a million public sector workers in line with the policy of an average one percent pay rise in 2016-17.<\/p>\n<p>The government asked the following Pay Review Bodies to examine how an increase to base pay could be applied in line with the government\u2019s policy of an average of 1% across the workforces:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Armed Forces Pay Review Body (AFPRB)<\/li>\n<li>Prison Service Pay Review Body (PSPRB)<\/li>\n<li>NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB)<\/li>\n<li>Doctors\u2019 and Dentists\u2019 Review Body (DDRB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Greg Hands, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our armed forces, NHS workers and prison officers do a brilliant job serving our country but with an increasingly turbulent global economy, pay restraint continues to be a key part of our plan to finish fixing the public finances.<\/p>\n<p>The independent OBR estimates that 200,000 public sector jobs have been protected thanks to our average 1% pay policy so we can continue to deliver crucial public services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The independent pay review bodies have worked hard to bring forward a balanced and affordable set of recommendations that delivers on our commitments to increase pay by an average of 1% across the workforces.<br \/>\nThe government is grateful for their work and I am pleased that we are able to accept their recommendations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The government has accepted in full the recommendations for the following workforces who will receive an average of a 1% pay increase:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Armed Forces<\/li>\n<li>NHS staff <\/li>\n<li>doctors and dentists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The government has also accepted in full the recommendations for the prison service who will receive a slightly above 1% average pay increase &#8211; at 1.36%. This is an exceptional award for the particular circumstances this year of introducing highly ambitious prison reform.<\/p>\n<p>The public sector pay bill makes up over half of departmental resource spending, so continued pay restraint remains central to the government\u2019s deficit reduction strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the pay review body reports will be delivered over the course of this pay round and the government will respond in due course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting out pay awards for over a million public sector workers including the NHS and the Armed Forces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}