Over? Just because public servants now pay a levy for their generous penions you think this is over?
Where is the action to scale the service down?
Where is the action to equalize pay because even after levy there is still a pay gap that needs addressing.
This is the kind of short sighted politics I'm used to from our goverment. No vision, just quick fixes that need to be fixed again in a couple of month.
Just because of a levy and no pay increase (which in my company are also out of the window) what does this do to address the 50 million we need to borrow every day to pay the public service?
What happens next is that the unions will call for strikes because this is an unfair treatment of their members.
This is not over by a long shot.
Exactly the response I was expecting
The Levy will effectively be a 5-10% pay cut. However, its a much bigger sacrifice for the post 1995 public sector staff whose pensions are NOWHERE NEAR AS GOOD AS pre 1995 staff as they pay more for a lot less of a pension (Don't believe all the tabloid crap on pensions)
As for scaling down...All people on contract will be out. I also think there would be legal problems regarding pay cuts for people on contract as pay terms are in the contract. (and believe me there are a lot of people on contract in the public sector).