In his Spending Review yesterday the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, highlighted a disparity between public sector and private sector wages, adding he "cannot justify a significant, across-the-board" pay increase for all public sector workers in the circumstances.
Ben Willmott, Head of Public Policy for the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, has responded to the Chancellor's Spending Review.
Following the news that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announce a £4.6bn package to help the unemployed back to work in the Spending Review, please find a reactive comment from Mariano Mamertino, Senior Economist for EMEA at LinkedIn, below:
Unemployment though low by historic standards at 4.8%, rose sharply by 0.7 percentage points on the quarter. Redundancies reached a record high of 314,000 suggesting that unemployment will continue to rise over the winter.