Westminster has been besieged over the past week by public sector workers protesting that the government was out of touch with them. |
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The raise falls under the category of social allowance, which was first applied in 1987 to deal with the deterioration in public sector wages. |
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Growth in public sector pay continued to beat the rises in the private sector. |
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According to the last media reports, the public sector pay dispute is still unresolved. |
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As a result universities remain among the last unreformed corners of the public sector, still working to the medieval calendar. |
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The private sector only beats the public sector for pay at the top and bottom of the pay scale. |
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We agreed minimum levels when we bid for the contract to keep the prison within the public sector. |
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Brown will pass on the bills of an unreformed public sector, a growing pension crisis and an increasing tax burden. |
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If they were applied throughout the UK public sector, he adds, the savings would amount to billions. |
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The Socialist Party government, like the previous right wing one, has unleashed neo-liberal attacks on public sector workers. |
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It could be in the public sector or the private sector, in this country or abroad. |
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That means linking up with the bitterness exploding around public sector pay. |
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Maybe here is where we can get the benefit of private sector practice and public sector service at the same time. |
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The public sector is still monstrously big and squeezes out the private sector. |
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Prospective issuers include 17 public sector undertakings, 11 public sector banks, four private sector banks, and six media companies. |
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Doctors, nurses and teachers in the productive public sector have had their pension rights compromised by the mushrooming of public sinecures. |
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However, none of the changes have been implemented because of the freeze on public sector recruitment announced in the Budget. |
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At present, the subsidy for these vehicles is available only for government organisations, NGOs, public sector undertakings and industries. |
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In 1999 the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the Mounties were still not entitled to the union rights of other public sector workers. |
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Among the eight Indian companies in the list, three companies are public sector undertakings while five are from the private sector. |
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Gibson, who formerly worked in both private and public sector health care, sees some signs of change. |
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Its election manifesto is replete with populist rhetoric opposing privatisation and defending the public sector. |
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However, Virgin's flotation flopped and Cruickshank moved into the public sector. |
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Now that Labour is safely back in power, the public sector unions have already started to flex their muscles. |
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Taken together, this core legislation entrenched the suppression of wage rises and cuts to the public sector. |
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It seemed like a wonderful strategy for offloading what promised to become an insupportable liability to pay public sector pensions. |
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They say this could lead to industrial action by public sector unions, and even possible strikes by staff. |
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Although there have been job cuts in the public sector, public sector unions have become proportionately larger within the union federation. |
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You cannot expect people to feather-bed these public sector employees while being robbed blind by spendthrift councils and Government taxes. |
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He said he would ensure that the pay commissions and negotiating bodies covering public sector pay would be told to move towards regional pay. |
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The department has long been a leader when it comes to energy innovation in the public sector. |
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Most work on HIV vaccines is being done in the public sector rather than the pharmaceutical industry. |
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The public sector has decided to make it public policy to leave drug development in the hands of the pharmaceutical industry. |
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The States have sought the approval even as the Centre's buy-back programme is faced with resistance from the public sector banks. |
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They defy the myth of public sector pen-pushers meddling in business affairs they know nothing about. |
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This is a central part of government policy, not just for the civil service, but for the public sector as a whole. |
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And that's what it will come to, for the council workers and other public sector parasites. |
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Treasury is telling him that if the rate of increase in the public sector continues, it has the potential to choke off economic growth. |
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It would hinder firms that could create the growth needed to help deliver the Government's public sector promises. |
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Moreover, trade union strongholds in the public sector are further threatened by ongoing privatisation. |
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Our strike is important for everyone in the health service and the public sector. |
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The Dutch Government wants to promote openness for public sector information systems. |
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The first major battle over public sector pensions could be about to begin. |
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It highlights a problem linked to pay and conditions, hours worked and the general lack of esteem in which the public sector is now held. |
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It began opening up public sector pensions to private pension funds and made people work longer for worse pensions. |
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The proposed cuts were met with mass walkouts, first by public sector workers and then by the rest of the Argentine unions. |
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Sandy Needham, chief executive of Bradford Chamber of Commerce, said absenteeism tended to be higher in the public sector. |
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Not before time, an organised effort is under way to raise the standard of management and leadership in Scotland's public sector. |
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We get to meet more mature graduates and second jobbers who are considering the public sector or accountancy as a career change. |
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His careless words mean that a prolonged battle between government and unions over public sector pay has become a racing certainty. |
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When income tax and excise revenues are not delivering, then it is time to call a halt on gratuitous payments to the public sector. |
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On public sector privatisation and cuts in welfare benefits, Labour and the Tories are united. |
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Overall, this is not a radical report, but it does go some way to meeting widely held criticisms of the ombudsmen system in the public sector. |
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Only rationalisation of the public sector offers any prospect of a decent settlement for them. |
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Dreams of a secular India, where the commanding heights of the economy are in the public sector, are as dead as a dodo. |
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The obviously right response to both these failures in a deep recession is the stepping-up of public sector investment to compensate. |
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At least if I play things right I can slip out at the end into a nice public sector job with a pension. |
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The bulk of that figure was generated by way of public sector recruitment while part-time work also added to the higher jobs figure, it said. |
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The subject of public sector pensions is like a red rag to a bull for those working in private industry. |
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This sort of thing is rampant in the public sector though so hardly qualifies as news. |
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The contract was trumpeted as a way of injecting investment and commercial know-how into the public sector. |
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I came from the private sector, it took me quite a while to adjust to the work ethic and practice and style in the public sector. |
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We have thereafter more or less enjoyed a pretty good record when it comes to management and direction of the public sector. |
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The Finance Ministry had recently asked large public sector banks to handhold smaller counterparts to improve the latter's functioning. |
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The government must reconsider its position and put into place a system for remitting student debts for all those who enter the public sector. |
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How have they benefitted from all the equal opportunities programmes in the public sector? |
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The report also sets out a new public sector duty to promote equality of opportunity for people with mental health problems. |
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After all, the ferocious equalitarianism of the old public sector would never have let people be paid more simply because they were pakeha. |
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Where the private sector fails to provide jobs, the public sector has a moral responsibility to do so. |
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Part three focuses on an analysis of stated policy issues within the public sector. |
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From a strategic viewpoint, the principal need was to understand precisely what each public sector organization was endeavouring to achieve. |
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This means the annual cost of public sector pensions is met from current revenues. |
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There are a rising number of strikes taking place in the public sector, as workers revolt against low pay and privatisation. |
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On October 6, thousands of public sector workers held anti-government protests to demand pay increases. |
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The government has launched a full-scale onslaught on public sector workers' pension rights. |
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Coal and lignite and mineral oils were de-reserved from exclusive public sector production. |
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The consequent reduction of the public sector puts even more power in the hands of the corporate elite. |
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The growth of recent years has relied on the public sector and the consumer, while manufacturing has stagnated. |
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The new service is already in talks with several high profile public sector organisations about staging large-scale forums. |
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The government plans to make millions of public sector employees work another five years before they can claim their pension. |
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The survey also showed that workers employed by private firms are paid less than workers in the public sector. |
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Actually there are no characteristics to differentiate it from the rest of the public sector, and sometimes even from the private sector. |
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The Lula administration insists that the pension plan is necessary to control the runaway costs of the public sector. |
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His office audits accounts of all public sector bodies and where attention needs to be drawn to outstanding issues a statement is issued. |
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Instead of the value of money, economics, in assimilating the Keynesian schema of analysis, discovered another stabilizer, the public sector. |
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The private sector average wage would be used to set salaries for all public sector employees. |
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They have presided over a vast increase in the number and salaries of public sector employees. |
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This paper examines that question by considering the acute phase of care provided by the public sector. |
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We in the Western nations long ago recognized autocracy in the public sector as poison, no matter how well-meaning the autocrat might be. |
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The following day's headlines focused on McConnell's comments on achieving greater efficiencies in the public sector. |
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The reason for this dramatic increase in public-sector inflation is that public sector wages are growing at ever faster rates. |
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The unions protested against wage cuts and layoffs for public sector workers. |
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There has been a flood of interest by private businesses in tendering for public sector contracts. |
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Successive governments pared back the public sector, privatising industries and services throughout the country. |
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Such automatic feedback mechanisms are one of the primary reasons why markets perform so much better than public sector bureaucracies. |
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He wants to privatise what is left of the public sector, and the ordinary New Zealand voter will not have a bar of that, at all. |
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He explored ethically possible avenues to maximize the level of wealth in the public sector. |
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The resilience of the economy was in no small measure due to the extra jobs created in the public sector. |
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The public sector has become the last bastion of comfortable retirement in Britain. |
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The capitalists who are now colonising the public sector across the globe are the common enemy of workers everywhere. |
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Most of the bigger unions representing the public sector have quietly accepted the main thrust of the benchmarking report. |
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The subcommittee's report deals in detail with the need to train more orthodontists to work in the public sector. |
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It wants more schools and public sector organisations to use local ingredients. |
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It called for unity with other trade unions, building alliances with public sector unions across towns and cities. |
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In Germany, France, and Switzerland, the public sector was vested with this authority. |
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There has been an unseemly behind-the-scenes squabble within the public sector over tourism's fate. |
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A top-heavy, tail-wagging public sector agency like the current set-up is no good for anyone. |
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How does it happen that citizens of modest means suffer as public sector unions gain? |
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This is why the public sector needs to be above preferment and dealism. |
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It represents a philosophic consistency that rejects the collectivism of social conservatives and public sector unions alike. |
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It should enable each citizen to see the contact data that government holds on him or her, and to know which public sector organisations have access to their contact data. |
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And as the public sector grew, the private sector languished. |
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The GOP is driven in part by the fact, that three years ago, public sector union members became the majority of union members. |
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But the need for demanding reservation in the private sector came as a result of large-scale privatisation of public sector units during their rule. |
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That discipline has to be applied across all categories otherwise the economy will be dragged down by the burden of funding a highly inefficient public sector, she said. |
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In the public sector, the free lunch lives on in the financial statements of pension funds. |
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The public sector is doing everything it can and is very committed to the roll-out of services, but it is up to businesses now to do what they have to. |
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We know that the defense industrial base of the 21st century must consist of both private sector and public sector capabilities-our arsenals, depots and ammunition plants. |
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Ironically, the private-sector unions have also suffered politically from the SINS of the public sector. |
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But he made it clear that the Government would not be coerced into conceding pay awards which threatened wage inflation as other public sector employees tried to catch up. |
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As a result, there is worth in considering the relationship between management accounting and financial accounting when examining public sector accounting change. |
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The stimulus, with its emphasis on public sector jobs, did little for Main Street. |
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Types of key workers to be included in the scheme have not yet been finalised but are likely to include tradespeople as well as public sector workers. |
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But he says the balance of power has shifted towards the workers because the public sector is having to compete with the private sector for a limited pool of talent. |
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As an architect of Indian development, he steered India toward adopting a mixed economy with a large public sector and considerable state control of the private sector. |
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The root cause of public sector inefficiency is the fact that public services are government monopolies which are immune from competitive pressures. |
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But the fact is, the public sector is also carrying many passengers, occupying sinecures in local and central government at the expense of their fellow citizens. |
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The administration ropes in all educational institutions, government offices, public sector undertakings and universities for the purpose of mobilising funds. |
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They are not the only public sector workers who are under the cosh. |
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Sir Peter Gershon, who masterminded a recent report on slimming down the public sector, was a former senior executive in the defence and electronics industries. |
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They increased the numbers of health professionals working in the public sector, improved health care infrastructure, and extended care to formerly unserved areas. |
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The electricity sector is heavily regulated, and the service is mostly provided by monopoly public sector utilities that fail to meet the demand, causing frequent blackouts. |
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This should have secured price cuts averaging 11 per cent for the UK public sector, according to last year's bumf, but we have no idea if this panned out in practice. |
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This trend is quite worrisome because, in the virtual absence of private investment, public sector spending is expected to be a major source of stimulus to the economy. |
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As Raimondo tells it, most public sector workers in the state were able to retire at age 55 with 80 percent of their pay. |
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The private sector has been adding jobs every months for the last few years while the public sector has been cutting them. |
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Or will we wait for the public sector to simply drive demand? |
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The focus on job creation in the public sector in cities like Bradford is stifling growth in private industry, leading business chiefs have warned. |
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Gordon Brown is storing up a lot of trouble over public sector pay. |
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Carr blows his budget by caving in to the public sector unions over the years and therefore helps himself to some extra gaming tax dollars to save the day. |
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Their services also include advising businesses in dealing with public sector purchasers and preparing proposals for submission to contracting bodies. |
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Despite ongoing government efforts to privatize large-scale parastatal units, the public sector continues to account for a significant proportion of industry. |
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You can, of course, take your job for granted if you work in the public sector, corporate recovery, pawnbroking, psychiatric care, litigation or medicine. |
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Dishonesty, thievery, and peculation pervade the public sector. |
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It is probably not surprising that employees in the public sector are five times more likely to be collectivised than their private sector counterparts. |
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Policies based on downsizing the public sector and the imposition of tight monetary policies had often undermined growth and hampered technological progress. |
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Yes, it's interesting that increasingly large companies in the public sector are offering people the opportunity to buy extra leave, and they reduce their pay commensurately. |
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As the demographic pie chart indicates, in addition to members in industry and public practice, we also have members in the public sector and in education. |
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It was developed over a two-year period and is the first concerted attempt in Hong Kong to provide common benchmarks and standards for public sector organisations. |
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So the Fund's objection was largely a technicality, because the assets and contingent liabilities of the whole of the public sector remained unchanged. |
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There is the public sector and intrapreneurs within private companies. |
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While the Government has a freeze on public sector recruitment, it says it is willing to recruit frontline health staff depending on the resources available. |
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It was suggested by some cynics that the real reason for the aggressive campaign was an attempt to gain a greater market share amongst public sector workers. |
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Over the past few years the public sector has walked away with benchmarking deals conceived as a means of getting round restrictive pay ceilings set by the talks. |
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But before politicians get too excited, it may be instructive to compare the supposedly wasteful public sector with the supposedly lean privateers. |
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If that were the goal of government institutions, people would feel very differently about them, and would not be so open to defunding the public sector. |
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The performance is creditworthy in view of the absorption of overhang problems by public sector banks and tightening of prudential norms for the banks. |
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By the end of your DipHE you should have the knowledge and skills needed to pursue successfully a career in management within industry, commerce or the public sector. |
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It may well be the case that the programmes have delivered industrial peace in the public sector and in unionised employments in the private sector, but at what price? |
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The Prime Minister's announcement of not disinvesting in the oil sector has earned him the loyalty of millions of social activists and public sector employees. |
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We might again witness half-hearted attempts at reform, without really addressing difficult but core issues such as public sector disinvestment and labour reform. |
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That distinction is gone and if the pressure on the public sector becomes too great, it is clear that the State pension will suffer in that event. |
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Financial accounting would strike a dagger through the whole case for public sector investment. |
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Taxes from the oil have increased public sector spending on social welfare, art, sport, environmental measures and financial development. |
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Bulmers are two of the largest private sector employers, with the Council and NHS being the largest public sector employers. |
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Businesses and organizations that are not part of the public sector are part of the private sector. |
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The discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s significantly boosted Shetland's economy, employment and public sector revenues. |
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The public sector is the part of the economy concerned with providing various governmental services. |
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This was indicative of the overstaffing levels in the public sector in which jobs appear to be for life. |
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The government has made war on the poor and the 'WORK shy' and it pauperises people while destroying jobs in the public sector hand over fist. |
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The majority of public sector revenue payable by Scottish residents and enterprises is collected at the UK level. |
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The gap in unionisation between private and public sector workers was particularly troubling. |
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The direction of today's capital markets is undoubtably toward the public sector. |
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The Glenrothes area's economy predominantly comprises manufacturing and engineering industries, service sector, health and public sector jobs. |
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The Privatisation strategy will provide a holistic framework for disinvesting public sector assets. |
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With deep and savage public sector cuts from the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats looming,Wales needs a strong defender, not a ditherer. |
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But as we all enjoy the benefits of longer lives, what is the fairest way to fund the lengthening dotages of public sector employees? |
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More than half of Qatar's public sector workforce is comprised of women, Mr Hamal revealed. |
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Public finance is the field of economics that deals with budgeting the revenues and expenditures of a public sector entity, usually government. |
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The publication will feature details of the movers and shakers in Welsh business, as well as leading figures from the public sector and politics. |
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In the public sector, we have not really created 360-degree accountability. It is more like 360-degree harassment. |
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As the centre of Scotland's government and legal system, the public sector plays a central role in Edinburgh's economy. |
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After 1945, for both practical and ideological reasons, the government decided to bring the rail service into the public sector. |
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The need for smart thinking employees working entrepreneurially within our public sector organisations has never been more important. |
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I encourage both the private and public sector to explore the benefits of microgeneration. |
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Characteristics of this model include low levels of regulation and taxes, and the public sector providing fewer services. |
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However, rifabutin is expensive and not currently available at public sector TB clinics. |
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Since May 2010, the public sector has axed 1.125 million jobs. |
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Panama unified all social insurances in the 1970s and began a process of integration with the public sector that was later halted. |
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Institutional capacity and governance in the sector are weak, reflecting general characteristics of the public sector in Saudi Arabia. |
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It employs over 20,950 staff in total, 16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting. |
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While Southport has a dependence on tourism the town is also home to many businesses both in the private and public sector. |
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This may seem somewhat odd, considering that public sector employers are consistently shown to have excellent workplace practices. |
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In Algeria, public sector workers have mounted a general strike for higher wages and improved working conditions. |
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For both men and women, the median wage earned by Black employees is significantly higher in the public sector than in other industries. |
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The US public sector is the single most important source of employment for African Americans. |
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The public also perceived a significant amount of public sector corruption. |
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He advanced black interests in the public sector, where over time people of color had predominated as the educated urban elite. |
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The public sector, including publicly owned enterprises and the municipalities, plays a dominant role in Greenland's economy. |
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The Labour government did not fulfil its earlier commitment to keep the railways in the public sector. |
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Thus, Ghana's public sector scored lower in 2013 than in 2012, according to CPI's scores. |
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To date the cluster contains around thirty organizations from both the private and public sector. |
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All the time it was in the public sector, all we got were cuts, cuts, cuts. |
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Millions of previously poor Egyptians, through education and jobs in the public sector, joined the middle class. |
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The local authorities, rather than the State, make up the larger part of the public sector in Sweden. |
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Greenpeace has raised environmental issues to public knowledge, and influenced both the private and the public sector. |
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Merthyr relies on a combination of public sector and manufacturing and service sector companies to provide employment. |
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The Minister voiced the government's apperception of all efforts undertaken by the private sector, in cooperation with the public sector, to cater for the consumers' needs. |
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Include UNISON and the whole situation is crystallised into one massive group which wants the featherbedding of the public sector to continue no matter what the cost. |
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Nadim Zaman, the head of financial institutions and public sector in the Middle East at Natixis, has resigned, Reuters has reported citing a statement by the French bank. |
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The increase in the participative management for human capital in the industry is not on the basis of counting number of years as is the practice in public sector. |
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Trichord processes the data and delivers it through a variety of products used by media outlets, commercial businesses, and public sector agencies. |
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Taxes from the oil have increased public sector spending in Shetland on social welfare, art, sport, environmental measures and financial development. |
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Industrial action could involve public sector workers including nonteaching school staff, ambulance staff, police support workers and health service workers. |
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Combinatorial procurement auctions are increasingly being employed in both the private and public sector as an alternative to simultaneous auctions of individual contracts. |
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The blowhards on the Tory right may infer the public sector does not provide essential services that need to be paid for, but that's tosh and they know it. |
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Since the mid-eighties Lambeth council had become a byword for failure in the public sector and, from the tabloid press's perspective, the gold standard for looniness. |
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As a result of the deficiencies of the official economy, black markets were created that were often supplied by goods stolen from the public sector. |
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In this restricted environment of public sector managerialism, the market is perceived as superior to service provision and welfare agencies must operate as businesses. |
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In the public sector, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust is one of the larger employers in the city, with over 12,000 employees working for the Trust. |
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Today, Costa Rican unions are strongest in the public sector, including the fields of education and medicine, but also have a strong presence in the agricultural sector. |
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But Birtism is only one example of the larger issue of the application of 'Thatcherism' to the management of the public sector in general and to education in particular. |
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Now, however, a construction boom in both the private and public sector has led to a dramatic improvement in living standards in major cities, particularly in Addis Ababa. |
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In public sector collages this enrolment amounts to almost 5000 students. |
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The public sector is shrinking and blue-chip companies are fighting to maintain their stock of employment, or to delocalise staff to remain in business. |
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This was strongly echoed by Phophi Ramathuba, deputy chairperson of SAMA's public sector committee and a doctor at the Voortrekker Hospital in Limpopo. |
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At a time when so many public sector workers are being thrown on the scrapheap, all that money could have been better spent keeping people in work. |
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The public sector, in Scotland, has a significant impact upon the economy and comprises central government departments, local government, and public corporations. |
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This was based on perceived levels of public sector corruption. |
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If How considerate, then, of the sharp suits at AWM to go out in style and remind us of the iniquities of the public sector gravy train and its bumper pension handouts. |
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There are about a dozen large landowners on Skye, the largest being the public sector, with the Scottish Government owning most of the northern part of the island. |
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