13th March 2006, 12:42 PM
No I suggested a target date for 2010, not in ten years time.
If RAOs were forced to increase their wage cost by 13% in April 2007 they would loose local government and university units. The remaining 40 (?) odd RAOs will then have a choice to tender for projects with a considerable cost disadvantage to non-RAOs which choose not, or are not allowed, to follow the minimum levels. Or they could leave the RAO system and remain in business.
The only mechanism I can think of to promote a pay increase of that scale is for there to be a mass boycott/ strike at units that paid below the desired threshold.
If RAOs were forced to increase their wage cost by 13% in April 2007 they would loose local government and university units. The remaining 40 (?) odd RAOs will then have a choice to tender for projects with a considerable cost disadvantage to non-RAOs which choose not, or are not allowed, to follow the minimum levels. Or they could leave the RAO system and remain in business.
The only mechanism I can think of to promote a pay increase of that scale is for there to be a mass boycott/ strike at units that paid below the desired threshold.