Dismantling central pay controls and the Treasury pay remit process would have another advantage: organisations would be fully accountable for their own performance.
The unions also oppose Tory plans to end central pay bargaining for teachers and to allow schools to pay according to merit.Here, though, the lessons from Sweden are more optimistic.
During the recession central pay bargaining ended in Ireland (1987 2009), Greece (1990 2010) and Romania (2005 2010) and in these three countries enterprise-level bargaining now prevails.
In Finland, on the other hand, central pay bargaining resumed in 2011 after an interlude of four years of sectoral and company bargaining.
Last year Central Steel paid a dividend of $30 a share.
The foreign central banks paid the Fed interest equivalent to what they made from lending the dollars.
After the Home Office certified the quality of a provincial police department, the central government paid half the cost of local policing, and local taxes paid the rest.
Moreover, about $4.6 trillion, or more than half of all debt held by the public, is now sequestered in central banks — paid for with printing-press money.
Moreover, although the central government paid for the plants, municipalities were left to operate them, and often failed to pay the wages or the electricity bills to keep them running.
Last year, George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, paid a rare public tribute to the group in awarding it a commendation for its contribution to the campaign against terrorism in Afghanistan.
Regarding costs to providers, costs for data entry were collected if the central IIS paid for these services.
