Alastair Hatchett

Regional pay: the top ten myths

17 January 2012 | Alastair Hatchett

George Osborne’s promise of greater regional pay differentiation for public sector employees is based on some common  myths  about the way national and local  pay levels are determined Read more

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Tough talk on pay

30 November 2011 | Alastair Hatchett

The chancellor’s  announcement of a tough 1% pay freeze for the public sector has come as a shock. Less so, the news that regional pay is back on the agenda Read more...

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Private pay rises by 3%, public by 0%

2 June 2011 | Alastair Hatchett

The latest analysis of pay settlements from IDSPay.co.uk shows that a clear gap has emerged between the levels of pay awards in the public and private sectors. The median pay award for the private sector in the three months to April is 3%, while in the public sector it is zero. Read more

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Public sector pay: fact and fiction

11 May 2011 | Alastair Hatchett

On Monday the Daily Telegraph front page led with: ‘Public sector workers receive more than 40 per cent extra in pay and pensions than their counterparts in private sector companies, as state wages spiral “hugely out of control”, a report finds today.’ Read more

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Manufacturing the recovery, by Alastair Hatchett

23 April 2010 | Alastair Hatchett

There were further signs of economic recovery in the private sector average earnings figures released by the Office for National Statistics on April 21. The strongest earnings growth came in manufacturing, where the rate of growth was 4.4% in February 2010. The trend growth rate in manufacturing would suggest that it will move up towards 5% in the figures to be released next month. Read more...

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No time to ditch national pay, by Alastair Hatchett

18 March 2010 | Alastair Hatchett

Local bargaining has been seen as a solution to unfair regional wage levels, but the argument makes many false assumptions Read more...

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Public vs private pay: no comparison, by Alastair Hatchett

26 January 2010 | Alastair Hatchett

The new Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) data were released on 20 January 2010, and were immediately misinterpreted by a host of journalists. The main point made by a number of newspapers was that earnings growth in the public sector was rising at 3.8 per cent as against -0.1 in the private sector, all in the year to November 2009. Read more...

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