Think-tank calls for end to national pay bargaining

Scrapping national pay bargaining in the public sector would save more than £6 billion a year that should be used to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, an influential think-tank has urged.

Nationally-set pay bands mean that the average public sector worker is paid 7% more than their private sector counterparts - rising to almost 14% when pensions are taken into account - according to a report published by the right-of-centre Policy Exchange.
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