Tax changes to be introduced in April could see hundreds of thousands of public sector workers lose up to 30% of their salary, sparking an exodus from already struggling sectors such as social care and the NHS.
Despite decades of violent conflict across countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, thousands of private sector firms are operating in those among other conflict-affected regions.
The chancellor is in the process of rolling out a series of tough austerity measures, which include billions of pounds of spending cuts and hundreds of thousands of public sector job losses.
They stem from new president Mauricio Macri's government, which has already fired thousands of public sector workers as part of cost-cutting measures.
The court's liberal justices emphasized the wide-reaching impact of overturning the 1977 precedent, in the absence of an extraordinary circumstance, which they said would in turn affect thousands of public-sector contracts.
Hunt said the talks, which are being held on the margins of a summit in Warsaw, would focus on a drive to inject money into Yemen's central bank so tens of thousands of public sector workers, including those in Houthi-controlled areas, can be paid.
It's a crying shame because there are so many positive messages that the representatives of organised labour could be throwing out, not least to the thousands of public sector workers ground down by staff shortages, low pay, bullying, harassment and mountains of bureaucracy.
After almost 10 years of eye-watering austerity, in which taxes have risen, welfare subsidies have been cut, pensions reduced and thousands of public sector workers made redundant, the government is poised to agree the final tranche of loans from the EU before being set free in August.
But as tens of thousands of public sector workers fret over their jobs as the spending review looms, I wanted to know whether bankers had learned their lessons.
