| Comment | The whole public sector pay structure is a joke and needs to be scrapped/redone.
There shouldn't be so much structure with salary bands as there is now. Let employees negotiate their own pay.
There is a problem with unions as well for jobs like this. In the private sector it works because unions know companies can only pay what they can afford. In the public sector, unions shouldn't be allowed in my opinion (albeit they have to exist the way current pay works) simply because there is no check to see if the demands are reasonable. The government doesn't care what it pays, as it's not its money. Hence why you end up with outrageous pay rises like the recent one for teachers which was way too high. At the same time, the unions can hold public services at gun point.
The solution is to scrap salary bands. Have uncapped salaries for every public sector role, the employees can negotiate whatever they want. |
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