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The British Monarchy Will Get a Huge Pay Increase This Year. ... The Sovereign Grant—the amount paid to the monarchy by the UK’s Treasury—is increasing by £45 million to £132 million this ...
On December 27, 2012, Obama issued an executive order giving federal employees an across-the-board raise, estimated by Congressional Republicans as costing taxpayers "$11 billion over ten years." In response, in February, 2013, House Republicans passed H.R. 273 "Overturning the President’s Federal Pay Hike," to undo Obama's blanket federal ...
Public sector pay deals help drive up UK borrowing The BMA said the recommended pay rise for 2025/26 "indicates a poor grasp of the unresolved issues from two years of industrial action".
The basic annual salary of a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons is £91,346, plus expenses, from April 2024. In addition, MPs are able to claim allowances to cover the costs of running an office and employing staff, and maintaining a constituency residence or a residence in London.
The Winter of Discontent was the period between November 1978 and February 1979 in the United Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public, sector trade unions demanding pay rises greater than the limits Prime Minister James Callaghan and his Labour Party government had been imposing, against Trades Union Congress (TUC) opposition, to control inflation.
Employees of Peterborough Limited, which is owned by Peterborough City Council, have threatened strike action after claiming they were yet to be offered a suitable pay increase which reflected ...
The budget increased net taxes by £4 billion (in 1981 prices). [3]A new 20% tax on North Sea oil was introduced. [1]A one-off windfall tax on certain bank deposits was introduced, in the form of a 2.5% levy on deposits of banking businesses, charged by reference to non-interest bearing sterling deposits in excess of £10 million averaged over the final three months of 1980. [2]
The 2002–2003 UK firefighter dispute was a period of nationwide strike action which began when the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) voted to strike in an attempt to secure better salaries. The FBU demanded a 39 percent increase in pay, which would have brought the average firefighter's wage to around £30,000 (equivalent to £61,642 in 2023).