A period of negotiation of salaries and pay awards.
the coming wage round could see conflict between trade unions and government
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In those three wage rounds, the total employment costs to business will be the same as a percentage of turnover as they are at the moment.
Since then there have been two wage rounds.
He sits there and smiles while the Government cynically tells people that if they behave themselves and do not have a wage round for 4 years, it will give them another week's holiday.
In the 1997-98 wage round, review body awards were postponed and the following year increases were targeted on specific groups.
They have calculated that the total cost of this bill is about a 3 percent increase in their payroll costs, and they have three wage rounds in which to claw that 3 percent back.
The department will begin negotiations with the unions early next year for another wage round.
The current salary offers are among the lowest in the current wage round.
But the whole recent wage round in the public sector I think was handled professionally.
We have settled the police wage round for the next 3 years.
Their own pay may increase by ten cents an hour in a wage round.