Govt workers on low pay and insecure contracts

13 October 2016

Despite Theresa May’s claims that the new Conservative government is behind the nation’s workers, it seems that as an employer, the Party is not practicing what it preaches.

The government pays at least 3,000 of its own workers below the rate it set at as the new “living wage” and 113 of its staff are on zero-hours contracts, it was revealed in parliamentary questions yesterday.

“These shocking figures underline just how low pay is across government and its contractors – made worse by six years of pay cuts – and expose the lie at the heart of the Tory claim to be the party of the workers,” a spokesman for PCS told the Morning Star.

“The government must use the upcoming Autumn Statement to announce it is lifting the public-sector pay cap and give civil servants the pay rises they desperately need, which would have a knock-on effect on the private sector.”