Civil Servant Pay Off Cuts In The Uk have your say

the government has tabled a proposel to reduce pay outs of long standing civil servants ,
i know you hear a lot of bad press about top civil servant payouts but they are a minority
the majority of cival servants are band b or c
and there wages average from £15000 per year at band b to £23000 for band c ,
the view held by some pcs members is that this is a starting point of privatising the benefit system affecting thousands of the poorest people in the country.
the benefit system is slowly undergoing change to make benefits simpler thus making it more attractive to a private take over ,this may sound good but a lot of people with severe disability's would lose out as a lot of hard won concessions would vanish as to simplify the complicated claim system
.if the government get this change through parliament we could see all the lifetime employees being made redundant to make way for short term 18month contracts [a very enticing prospect for a private company as no redundancy payouts if they have to make cuts]
the other side is we all know how unsympathetic private company's can be towards the general public ,
and people on benefits are the most vulnerable
anyway heres some links
http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=10303
http://www.congressvoices.org/2009/e2-cuts...on-scheme-cscs/
http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/200...ial-action.html

edit
its predicted that 17000 civil servant jobs may go based on government predicted savings
what your view ,

In my view, a contract doesn't mean a thing today, most companies only ever sign you on for short term and then either let you go or extend your contract, there's no such thing as job security in any sector (well any of the lower class sectors) If they want to cost cut they let you go giving obscure reasons.

Why does privatisation of the social security system not surprise me?
The government have done it (or tried to) with everything else, there can't be much more to privatise can there?

I agree with you, it's always to feed the fat cats, never the scrawny sewer rats, but I feel subdued because there is never a way to stop them!

As you know with the pottery industry, all the jobs went and nobody did a thing to stop it!