Striking workers may be offered an early bumper pay rise next year to make up for this year’s squeeze in a last-ditch bid to end the rolling industrial action 🔴 HugoGye and paulwaugh
But ministers are increasingly hinting that for the next year, which starts in April, they will grant a public-sector pay increase in line with or above inflation – giving workers an income boost without the Government having to back down from its current negotiating position.
The Health Secretary told the BBC’s Today programme: “We’re already three quarters of the way through this year so what you’d be saying is, go all the way back retrospectively to April to unpick what has been an independent decision by the pay review body. The Department for Health is also working on a package of improvements to working conditions for NHS staff that it hopes to publish in the coming weeks.
But Mr Barclay has not ruled out banning some NHS workers from going on strike at all in what would be seen as a nuclear option. He said: “It will be a cross-government decision, but we need to look at the evidence from what happens today.”
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