Public sector employment
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Work in the public sector but we have just cut upto £5m so if they cut anymore they wont be running any services, so dont feel worried.
Good point there, we've just made a LOT of savings/cuts, hopefully we'll be fine.
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There are too many people employed in the Public Sector. There needs to be a migration to the Private Sector, which will hopefully assist with the recovery. There will be some cuts, but that's life.
Who help prop up the private sector by buying services and goods. Without the public sector the government has a lot more unemployment benefit etc to pay out, whilst losing out on taxes received from those workers previously. It's not as easy as simply cutting, they save on jobs but they'll also lose revenue if those workers don't find alternative employment quickly which isn't going to be easy in a recession.
Cull the public sector too quickly and the knock on effect will be less money going from public to private sector through services and goods, plunging them into recession.
and whos going to run your prisons with all the dangerous criminals in them, look at serco their private prisons are a shambles and dangerous. you need public sector prisons, also who is going to run the civil service yep you guessed it public sector workers, so stop being so narrow minded and blame the banks not the public sector for this mess!
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I work in local government and I am concerned that in the next 1-3 years, budgets will be progressively cut, if posts become vacant they won't be filled, increased workloads, higher targets, even more aggresive sickness monitoring yada yada yada....
At present my council is trying to change terms and conditions for employees; reducing redundency terms and job protection periods.
I suspect their is going to be a lot of belt-tightening ahead.
At present my council is trying to change terms and conditions for employees; reducing redundency terms and job protection periods.
I suspect their is going to be a lot of belt-tightening ahead.
Haha I love how you've all got so defensive, was only a passing joke. Golly times must be tense in the tea rooms at the moment
Tea rooms? hell no, I get someone to bring mine to my office on a gold plated tray lined with Tunnocks tea cakes.
I don't sit with the minions, there's some private contractors in those tea rooms these days, they'll be first out the door 
Tea rooms? hell no, I get someone to bring mine to my office on a gold plated tray lined with Tunnocks tea cakes.
Is that whilst you're smoking a roll-up made from a taxpayer £50 note?
The private sector isn't propped up by the public sector. In fact, the public sector is directly funded by the private sector. The only way that argument works if if you genuinely believe the public sector is more efficient and productive than the private sector.
Ironic given that the main reason for the mess is all the money given to private banks.
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That really doesn't make any sense. How could the government miss the 30% or so taxes the public sector worker pays when 100% of their wages come out of taxation?
Do you have any figures to substantiate that claim?
The Government is actually sitting on a profit on the bank bailout now. The main reason for the mess is the Labour Governments inability to balance the books during the entire 00s, despite us being in boom times.
Where do you come by 30%? What about other taxes we pay the same as private sector workers or do you know some way that I can avoid paying tax on petrol etc? They're not going to save 100% by sacking a public sector worker, especially if that person then sits on the dole for the next x years.
I don't buy that public sector worker as such a huge drain on the economy and a waste of money, like many private sector workers like to claim - I've spent most of my career in the private sector and still don't see where such a daft idea comes from. There's a lot of private firms kept afloat by the money that goes from my department to them, that money will be cut before any jobs are lost in my department, we can do without the private sector contractors too and will trim back services before anyone is fired who's a permanent member of staff.
In short, cuts in the public sector are going to seriously hurt the private sector who seem to be under the impression that things are as bad as they can get, which is far from the truth.
Completely made up number, the point was that 100% of your wage comes from taxation so it costs them nothing in taxes to not pay it. All of that "lost" tax revenue they gain from you they save by not paying you in the first place and then some.