Councils could face a management-level recruitment and retention crisis unless public sector pay restraint is eased, a respected think-tank has warned.
A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) yesterday highlighted growing concern that better-paid and higher-educated public sector staff, including those in local government, are falling further behind their private sector peers when it comes to remuneration.
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