We are being told by Gordon Brown that senior civil servants, dopctors etc will have to show restraint with a 1.5% pay increase next year, when we are told that inflation is near zero. So that's a real terms pay increase at times of national economic crisis. Surely the only responsible thing would be a pay freeze ? Or perhaps, like the Bank of England's pension fund, they know inflation ...

Doubtless in the same spirit of valedictory vindictiveness that prompted his spiritual predecessor to privatise the railways, the Glorious Successor has announced a pay freeze for ministers. It is not entirely clear whether this is a private sector pay freeze (i.e. a pay rise in line with inflation, so that spending power remains unaltered) or a public sector pay freeze (i.e. a freeze in the

A PAY freeze would be slapped on every council worker in Edinburgh that earns more than £40,000 a year under budget plans drawn up by opposition councillors.

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, topped Labour's announcement that it wanted a freeze for higher earners in 2010 with a further pay freeze across the public sector in the following year

WELL that didn't take long. The FM will now donate all the Westminster pay increase coming his way to his charitable trust, his chief spin doc has just announced. He'll donate his take home pay from the £1475 increase to the Mary Salmond Trust. It means that, like all other government ministers, his wages will be pegged at 2009/9 levels. Quick work to close down a potentially embarrassing story. ...

Trinity Mirror staff are currently being told a pay freeze is to be imposed on them. Here's our press release going out now. "The NUJ has hit out at Trinity Mirror’s senior management after it announced plans to impose a pay freeze across the company. Journalists were called into briefings today...

David Cameron warned in report that government plans to freeze pay in the Armed Forces is causing concern

A Conservative Government would impose a oneyear pay freeze on the majority of public sector workers to get the state deficit under control shadow chancellor George Osborne has said.

Pay Freeze Since Monday, when the company announced that the 1st April Fujitsu Services pay review “will no longer happen”,...

A two-year pay freeze was imposed, in addition to the prospect of a big increase in pension contributions – ending the relative protection from the recession that state workers have enjoyed