{"id":6341,"date":"2017-09-12T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/12\/public-sector-pay-cap-to-be-lifted-next-year-no-10-says\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:55:28","slug":"public-sector-pay-cap-to-be-lifted-next-year-no-10-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=6341","title":{"rendered":"Public sector pay cap to be lifted next year, No 10 says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet agrees pay rises for prison and police officers this year but both groups say offers are inadequate in face of inflationThe government is to lift the longstanding 1% annual cap on public sector pay from next year, and has confirmed higher rises for police and prison officers immediately, Downing Street has announced.The cabinet agreed on Tuesday that police would receive a 2% pay rise for 2017-18 \u2013 half of which is a one-off \u201cnon-consolidated\u201d bonus \u2013 and prison officers an average 1.7% rise, Theresa May\u2019s spokesman said. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2017\/sep\/12\/police-and-prison-officers-pay-cap-to-be-lifted-no-10-says\" target=\"_blank\">Public sector pay cap to be lifted next year, No 10 says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet agrees pay rises for prison and police officers this year but both groups say offers are inadequate in face of inflationThe government is to lift the longstanding 1% annual cap on public sector pay from next year, and has confirmed higher rises for police and prison officers immediately, Downing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}