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Will Gordon Brown withstand demands for public sector pay increases to compensate for the rising cost of living?

Public-sector pay packets are up to 15% lighter and will be lighter still after this week's budget.

The mooted changes come on top of a two-year freeze on public-sector pay for all but those on very low salaries.

Lots of states, faced with swelling pension and health-care costs and yawning deficits, are seeking to curb public-sector pay and benefits.

Given the scale of the deficit, reductions in social security and public sector pay bills are inevitable.

Big cuts in public-sector pay and allowances have been pushed through in Ireland, Spain and Greece.

Top public sector pay, even allowing for defined benefit pension schemes, is lower than in comparably sized listed companies.

Saudi Arabia is boosting public-sector pay by 15% as part of a $36 billion spending splurge.

We've said there will be a public-sector pay freeze from 2011, excluding the million lowest-paid workers.

Another is that public-sector pay and benefits have shot ahead as a cosseted caste extends its privileges.

The government has made progress in tightening fiscal policy, including reform of public sector pay and pensions.

Two days later Miles Templeman, director-general of the Institute of Directors, called for a one-year freeze in public-sector pay.

and politicians are unpopular in such hard-hit places as Latvia, which is imposing cuts of 20% or more in public-sector pay.

The reform of public-sector pay is also fuelling inflation.

Some warn that public-sector pay cuts could even lead to more bribe-taking.

Public-sector pay is being cut by 5% and taxes are being cranked up.

The government has trimmed public spending by fully 3. 8% of GDP this year, with most cuts falling on social spending and public-sector pay.

Many governments (for example in Ireland, Greece and Spain) are cutting public-sector pay.

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