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Sorry, but why exactly were the firefighters right. Not saying they don't do a fantastic job but there are plenty who, on their four days off do a separate job. As for Doctors, they earn a fortune for less work where as nurses have a massive workload and pay is at a standstill and their...

Surely depends on how your work is structured. If overtime is a rare opportunity to make extra now and again then maybe no problem but if the employer ensures that workloads are such that overtime is a necessity and is part of your expected weekly hours then that is a different scenario.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't £22k inclusive of overtime so they are being asked to take a pay cut. You opted to do what you do and may well have had it tough over the last few years but you don't indicate how well you did before that! You say you had a 60% reduction down to about what the...

I thought this was about taking something they already had, not giving them what they want! Be interested to know when you worked for the council? As for the private sector, I have only ever worked in the private sector and I have seen numerous cases of abuse of expense accounts.

The government don't agree otherwise they wouldn't give tax credits on that amount. And if you got your job for £11k and then a couple of years down the line your employer decided you were only going to get £9k and you could protest about it with the risk of victimisation, would you lie back...

Pointless post as it doesn't say what the actual basis wage is (which appears to have been pointed out in subsequent posts as £8) Think you are missing something. Any individual is more concerned with what their take home pay is, not just what their basic pay is. In many cases, employers...

Beat me to it.

Not necessarily defending them but it's not about taking a job on the terms outlined, if your pay is being reduced then the terms on which you took the job have been altered. Where does that stop?