Talk of a General Strike on the radio this morning.
At least for those in the public sector the problem is that this comes on top of wage stagnation back to at least 2008*. That fact, overt government policy in the Austerity era, massively devalues the government's attempts to tell us to 'grin and bear it'.
I left the Civil Service in 2013. When setting up my Pension they used a 3 step process looking at (a) my final salary, (b) in any one of the last three years was better then that figure (helps people who had a good year for overtime) or (c) average of the best three years in the last eight.
If (b) or (c) apply then they're indexed to CPI.
Although there was some revaluing of pay scales in 2009-13 it never improved the max for grade on any scale. My salary for 2005-8, indexed by CPI was several thousand more than the final figure, maybe 15% more.
That was simply a loss of purchasing power crystalised.
The SEO max is still the same now.
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