Well it looks like the impact of the Government’s hand being forced over public sector pay this year is for blanket pay rises to be replaced by pay settlements based on performance, location and efficiencies to ensure public sector pay is more comparable to private sector pay.
Blanket public sector pay rises to be based on performance
Are we therefore looking at the end of the AFPRB in its current guise? I genuinely have no idea how this will work for the Forces. If nothing else comparing military to civilian pay should lead to an increase. I can’t see any professionals out in civvie life accepting a military salary level whilst expecting to do several peoples’ jobs, secondary duties, on call 24/7 for extended periods and then deployed away from home for months on end with potentially life / death responsibilty levels.
Or b....
Or does this just make the AFPRB’s job even harder so the days of timely notification for a 1 Apr implementation will be replaced by months of complex wrangling and pay settlements coming in half way through the year again?