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How did government botch public sector pay expectations?

Politics: Calling for public sector pay restraint not new but has backfired on Labour.

Brent Edwards Thu, 13 May 2021

In politics explaining is losing.

And the government has been doing plenty of explaining since it issued its guidance on public service pay last week.

It was almost immediately deemed a pay freeze, with the Opportunities Party, among others, comparing it to the wage and price freeze imposed

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Brent Edwards Thu, 13 May 2021
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