Unions are up in arms about the public sector pay freeze for four million workers that Rishi Sunak is expected to unveil at tomorrow’s spending review. Public sector pay was frozen between 2011 and 2013 and annual rises were limited to 1 per cent until 2017. For government workers, that looks like a raw deal and only a tin-eared chancellor would try to justify another pay freeze on “reasons of fairness”. But Mr Sunak has a point, as long as it is for only a single year. Private sector pay in

Source: The Times November 23, 2020 17:03 UTC