Opinion
Wage cut alone won’t fix public service problem
23 May 2021 - 00:00
Freezing the public service wage bill on its own will not slash debt. Nor will it boost performance or increase value for money. Whatever savings are realised in reducing the wage bill will almost certainly immediately be lost in irregular and fruitless spending, incompetence and corruption...
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