Ministers agreed a recommendation for police to get the standard 1% pay rise with an extra, one-off 1% sum added for the next 12 months, beginning immediately. A Labour government will end the public sector pay cap and give all workers the pay rise they deserve and so desperately need,” he said. There was, he added, a need for pay discipline over the coming years to balance the needs of public sector workers “while also being affordable within the public finances and fair to taxpayers as a whole”. Doubts about whether this will actually mean higher pay rises were increased by a media briefing document for ministers on the issue, seen by the Guardian. It showed the extent of the rise for individual prison officers would vary, depending on factors including the recipients’ pay band and performance rating.

Source: The Guardian September 12, 2017 12:08 UTC