UK to raise minimum wage and ‘freeze’ civil service increases

British Government They committed to raising the minimum wage and stopping civil service increases. During the Conservative Party’s annual conference, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt have announced that they will raise the minimum wage next year and would stop the expansion of civil service bodies country. “This is a pay rise for two million workers,” said the minister, who said that “if you work hard, the conservative government will always support you.”

The minimum wage will rise from the current £10.42 an hour (€12.03) to £11 an hour (€12.70), Hunt said. before training members meeting at the conference center in Manchester (northern England).

In the same speech, Hunt announced that he would halt expansion of the civil service workforce and would launch a plan to reducing it to pre-pandemic levels from the coronavirus. With that plan, you The government hopes to save £1 billion (1,150 million euros) next year, details the head of Economics.

“We have the best civil servants in the world, who have saved many lives during the pandemic by working day and night. “However, even when this pandemic is over, we will still have 66,000 more civil servants than before,” he said.

“I will not lift this freeze until we have an adequate plan, not only for civil servants but also to increase the productivity of the entire public sector,” he added.

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