The agreement will see a minimum rise of 7.7% for the 1.2 million-strong local government workforce over two years.
The bill also seeks to restrict federal hiring to only two employees for every three leaving, until the size of the federal government workforce is reduced by 5 percent.
I reduced the government workforce by 13,000 – that's kind of hard to do, but I did it by reforming how government works".
In the mid 1990s 5.8% of the Commonwealth government workforce were people with disabilities, but by 2005 that had fallen to 3.8%.
The proposed freeze is also in keeping with a Republican standby: That government jobs aren't really jobs, meaning there's no problem with making them unpleasant and reducing the government workforce through attrition.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON about the ongoing attempts to shrink government by Representative Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton, who are, in effect, competing to see who can reduce the government workforce the most.
Li offered the first measurable commitments, promising to cut the government workforce, halt spending on government offices and hotels, freeze spending on overseas trips and official vehicles and slash the 1,700 processes requiring government approval by a third.
Some 95 per cent of the local government workforce already earns more than £7.20 an hour, but 92,820 earn less including street cleaners, school crossing patrols and school dinner staff, mostly part-timers.
By Michael Kelly The New Yorker, January 23 , 1995P. 32 LETTER FROM WASHINGTON about the ongoing attempts to shrink government by Representative Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton, who are, in effect, competing to see who can reduce the government workforce the most.
The Supreme Court has upheld the right of federal employees to speak out on public issues as private individuals, and there are robust laws protecting whistle-blowers in the government workforce.
