Pay and rewards
A key part of the role of the Cabinet Office is ensuring that public
services pay is affordable, efficient and effective. Each year government
and public service employers spend £130 billion on public service pay and
pensions and a further substantial amount on other forms of employee
investment such as training and development.
Government and employers are responsible for ensuring that this money is
spent:
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Effectively - wherever possible the money spent should have the greatest
possible impact on the service received by the user of public services.
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Efficiently - money should not be spent where it reaps no benefits
therefore assumptions about what employees value should be avoided.
In order to achieve this dual goal:
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the rewards package must be clearly linked to the overall aims of the
organisation - improving service delivery and increased workforce
diversity and flexibility; and
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all rewards should be viewed as part of one, coherent, package and a
change to one element must be understood in the context of the impact
that it will have on other elements.
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