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Increments create inequality in the workplace and do nothing to promote productivity or quality outcomes for patients.

The fact that we have enjoyed increments and cost of living increases throughout the global financial crisis owes much to the commitment of successive governments, and to a pay system which improved pay and conditions for virtually everyone.
However, what is the point in perpetuating these cost pressures when they will only cost even more jobs?

I have friends and family in the private sector who have endured pay freezes, pay cuts and job losses over a period of some time now, and I don't see how we can look these people in the eye in the current global economic climate and argue that we are a special case.