To work, the 'pay freeze for jobs' agreement needs coherent, medium term planning

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The national enabling agreement proposes a pay freeze in return for no compulsory redundancies - but could this really be delivered? Director of public sector consulting at Hay Group Peter Smith weighs up the pros and cons.

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