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‘A PR stunt’: public-sector workers on the end of their pay freeze
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The wages of public sector workers including teachers, police officers and civil servants are to rise after Rishi Sunak announced that a pay freeze imposed last year would end in April 2022.
The freeze affected almost half of public-sector workers, with exemptions for NHS workers and those earning less than £24,000.
It will be some time before workers find out what their rise will be, and whether it will be enough to keep up with inflation which stands at 3.1% and could go above 4% by December, according to the Bank of England. Any pay increases will have to be funded from Whitehall departments’ own budgets, because the chancellor has not earmarked any new money to fund the rise. There is some headroom, however, after he announced
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