Pickles acts to ban public sector 'double dipping'

Yesterday the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) launched its guidance Openness and accountability in local pay, which sets a cap on public sector pay at £100,000. Any pay above £100,000 will have to be publicly justified in open sessions of full councils, and includes bonuses, inflation pay rises,severance money or retirement benefits. Pickles has vowed to eradicate the practice of what he terms "double dipping", where public sector workers retire from their roles from age 55, begin drawing their pensions, and take up another role with the same local authority. ...