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Redundancy cap is an attack on public service workers

Redundancy cap is an attack on public service workers

Teachers and other public service workers on moderate salaries will be forced to bear the brunt of unfair proposals to limit severance payments, the NASUWT, the largest teachers Union in the UK warned today.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT said:

“Ministers have disgracefully, deliberately misled the public that these proposals will curb the fat cat payouts from public money in the BBC and the nationalised banks.

“The reality is these organisations are specifically excluded.

“Instead it is public service workers including teachers on moderate incomes who will be targeted.

“This is a continuation of the unjustified and unfair attacks on public service workers.”

Speaking to the motion on the Public Sector Redundancy Cap at the TUC Congress, NASUWT National Treasurer Brian Cookson said:

“This totally misnamed Conservative Government’s cap on public sector redundancy pay-outs is Orwellian in the extreme in terms of the spin applied to it.

“This is yet another attack by this Government on the terms and conditions of many public earners.

“It is a continuation of the onslaught on the living standards of public sector workers. The additional purpose of this cap is to reduce the £6.5 billion cost to the public sector of exit payments during part of the last parliament.”