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Low-paid staff deliver stingy boss ‘birthday card’
HARD-PRESSED Civil Service workers delivered a birthday message to Scottish Finance Minister Derek Mackay yesterday, demanding an end to the “unsustainable” public-sector pay cap.
Public-service union PCS members gathered in Edinburgh to hand deliver a card to the birthday boy signed by hundreds of Scottish government workers, which read: “Share a piece of the cake with your employees.”
Under pressure from trade unions and from Labour’s general election pledge to lift the 1 per cent cap, Mr Mackay confirmed last month that the cap would not feature in next year’s pay policy.
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