The HM treasury documentation saying:
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...3-complete.pdf
'Departments will be putting in place plans to end automatic time-served
progression pay in the civil service by 2015-16. In addition, substantial reforms to progression
pay will be taken forward or are already underway for teachers, the health service, prisons and
the police – ensuring that public sector workers do not receive pay increases purely as a result of
time in post.'
is out of kilter with :
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...013_14.pdf.pdf
'Progression pay
2.3 Increases arising from contractual progression pay increments will continue to be paid where such increments are a legal entitlement. Departments are encouraged to include contractual progression increments to which there is a legal entitlement as part of the one per cent award.
Reform of progression pay arrangements
2.4 Departments have the opportunity to put forward plans to remove automatic time-served progression pay. Treasury will consider proposals for flexibility in relation to the one per cent (see paragraph 2.2) if they are linked to substantive plans to do so. To qualify for consideration, departments must provide a robust and fully costed business case for their proposals that offers clear value for money for the taxpayer and includes the removal of legally binding progression arrangements. In order to assist Treasury’s assessment of their business case, departments may wish to refer to the additional guidance set out in Annex E when drawing up proposals.
2.5 Any proposal should be included with other information provided to the Treasury as part of the 2015-16 Spending Round. The supporting business case should if possible be provided to the Cabinet Office at the same time and in any case by 6 May 2013 at the latest. Any well-developed case that would breach the one per cent policy should also be referred to the Treasury. '
as well as being breach of contract when that pay progression is written into the contract of employment. However very few central government depts have contractual pay progression.
HM Treasury suggested to depts last year that they should buy out contractual pay progression, however HM Treasury didn't approve any cases to buy it out.
I left the RAF in 2008 and ended up in the Civil Service, it was clear to me the only way to get a pay rise was to get promoted and to move Depts to maximise the differences between dept pay scales (Cabinet Office pay is awful(MOD B1 equiv £44K pa(min)), MOD (B1 £56.7K pa (Min))is OK, HMRC (MOD B1 Equiv £63K pa (Min) is very good, OFSTED (MOD B1 Equiv £69K pa (Min)) is great. Result 35% pay increase in less than 5 years.