Council bosses give up pay rise

what does councillor Cook mean when he states that the fat cats are foregoing their payrise in 2011"which we trust will set an example to others" Does he mean the lower paid amongst us, or other fat cats in other management heavy puiblic service bodies?


Tom - Scotland

I think if I was on £120,000 a year I might be persuaded to give up my pay rise. However I earn a lot less than that and the majority earn a lot less than me. When inflation is at 3.5% and National Insurance increasing by 1% someone on less than £20,000 is struggling to put food on the table. The Chief Executive might be giving up some luxury holiday for this year but they don't have to worry about feeding and clothing the weans.
Stephen Smellie - Hamilton, UNISON

Hope the savings that result will be used to give an increase to cleaners, caterers, home carers, school support assistants and other low paid Council employees who didn't benefit when finances were in good health.
Margaret - Unison, South Lanarkshire Branch

We have to look at this in perspective as many council workers are low paid and not in fulltime employment as we know it ie; 24 &32 hrs.
I will gladly take a pay freeze if you pay me their years salary.
Please do not insult my intelligence especially when we are in a situation where employees are looking for a second job as they cannot get 37hr contracts. A poor show by a supposedly pro- active council and it is a very much tongue in cheek comment and rather insulting and insensitive to peoples needs.

Bob T - Lanarkshire/ Scotland/South Lanarkshire Council

Inflation is almost back at 3% so a pay freeze is a cut in real terms. Teachers are getting 2.4%!!! It's fine for chief exec's on fabulous wages to take the moral high ground and refuse a pay rise there are in a prviliged position to be able to do so also South Lanarkshire Council have already budgeted for 1.5% in the coming year.


Carole - SLC

If i earned the salary of the chief execs i could afford to forgo the rise. a 1.5% increase for me still means a reduction of income as i am a council tenant whose rent has increased by 3% - not to mention the rise in the cost of living
isabelle o''hara - south lanarkshire council unison

Would be nice to see Directors and Heads of Service going down same route. They are paid obscene amounts of money for what they do.
J Thain - Perth

I think it is a damn disgrace for the chiefs to expect us to not take the minimum pay rise. Some workers are on minimum wage and all other things such as utilities etc increasing why should the indians suffer!!
Rose Ann Stewart - hamilton

How nice of the Council Chiefs to forego their pay rise - at least they had a pay rise to forego!!! It would be nice if the "ordinary" workers were offered the same 2.5% increase - at least giving us the option! A far better example to set, by Council Leaders, would have been them to forego their increase to make sure the lower paid workers were guaranteed some sort of increase!!!!
Martin Higgins - Hamilton, Scotland/SLC

It must be nice to be offered and be able to refuse you pay increase. Even more surprising taking into account how much 2.5 % of a CE's salary must be. As a public sector worker who just gets told there won't be a pay increase and you are lucky to have a job it's almost unbelievable, these people live in a different world, a fair an equitable one, not open to the rest of us.
Graeme McDonald

they should of done what is being called 'leadership' many many years ago then maybe the clerical workers like myself would not in effect be having a pay cut for the forseable future as my wage is no where close to cost of living. There salary's are hugely over what they should be anyway. Real leadership would be to pass there pay freeze onto the workers.
Janis Leask - East Kilbride/Glasgow/SLC

if i were paid 4 times my current salary im sure i too could aford not to take a pay rise this year , however i am not and any rise i get will still not stop me being overdrawn each month .
k maxfield - aberdeen