“Public Sector Pay” is such a monolithic concept, and doesn’t convey the reality that there is a huge spread in pay in public sector organisations.
Take a look at the council jobs sections on say myjobscotland, and do the maths, and realise that a newly hired bin loader on £12.15 per hour for a 37hr week, has a weekly pay less than a job paying the minimum wage for a 40hr week.
What should that tell you ? That a bin loader is a minimum wage job, as are the administrative staff, the early years assistants, all the other jobs paying those rates (or less), are minimum wage.
“looking for enthusiastic, motivated staff to support the learning and development of young children within our Early Learning and Childcare establishments.” For £12.15/hr 😐
so yeah. transparency. Tell the truth. That society is unwilling or unable to pay minimum wage for a great deal of public sector employees, and that there is no ability to recruit to replace people that die before reaching retirement age, and there are no more efficiency savings to be made.
The council guys here were cutting hedges in the pishing rain yesterday. They used to be allowed to seek shelter, but that was one of the conditions of work that was removed to fund a previous years pay award, and the workload is now such that if they don’t work in all weather, they’ll fall behind. Used to be 6 guys take 8 weeks allowing for weather, to do the hedges. Now it’s 4 guys and 6 weeks. That’s the “efficiency saving”.
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“Public Sector Pay” is such a monolithic concept, and doesn’t convey the reality that there is a huge spread in pay in public sector organisations.
Take a look at the council jobs sections on say myjobscotland, and do the maths, and realise that a newly hired bin loader on £12.15 per hour for a 37hr week, has a weekly pay less than a job paying the minimum wage for a 40hr week.
What should that tell you ? That a bin loader is a minimum wage job, as are the administrative staff, the early years assistants, all the other jobs paying those rates (or less), are minimum wage.
“looking for enthusiastic, motivated staff to support the learning and development of young children within our Early Learning and Childcare establishments.” For £12.15/hr 😐
so yeah. transparency. Tell the truth. That society is unwilling or unable to pay minimum wage for a great deal of public sector employees, and that there is no ability to recruit to replace people that die before reaching retirement age, and there are no more efficiency savings to be made.
The council guys here were cutting hedges in the pishing rain yesterday. They used to be allowed to seek shelter, but that was one of the conditions of work that was removed to fund a previous years pay award, and the workload is now such that if they don’t work in all weather, they’ll fall behind. Used to be 6 guys take 8 weeks allowing for weather, to do the hedges. Now it’s 4 guys and 6 weeks. That’s the “efficiency saving”.