NEWS
SETTING THE STAGE FOR FAIR POLICE PAY
What is the PFEW doing following the resounding response to a membership poll seeking views on pursuing collective bargaining with the ability to enter into binding arbitration for all parties? Read below to know the ensuing strategy
In June 2024 the federated ranks of Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) voted in favour of PFEW pursuing collective bargaining and binding arbitration on pay for police officers (over 50 per cent of our membership voted in favour by 97.7 per cent). Since then, work has been underway in this area. This is alongside the work around the pay award for 2025. Currently PFEW sit outside of the pay review body, the Police
accept the recommendation of the PRRB. With our hands tied behind our backs,
unable to take action, police officers are at the mercy of a one-sided system which fixes their pay. The PRRB is a rigged
“PFEW has already begun work to highlight areas where it believes allowances should be either created or increased. This is alongside evidence around what the annual pay increase should be.”
Remuneration Review Body (PRRB), having withdrawn due to concerns around the PRRB process. This is because it is controlled at both ends by the Government. This means that at the beginning of the process the remit letter to the PRRB from the Government can limit its independence. At the end of the process the Government is not bound to
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process in which the government hand picks the members, constrains their remit and decides the outcome. It’s like a football match where one side selects the opponent’s players, referees the game and has a veto over the result. Whilst we remain outside of the PRRB process it doesn’t prevent PFEW from highlighting concerns around pay and
conditions of service in other ways. Each year PFEW conducts its annual Pay and Morale survey and rather than a formal submission to the PRRB produces a pay positioning document to provide an evidence base for areas of remuneration that we feel need enhancing. The pay review process for 2025 has already begun and in September the remit letter was sent by the Government to the PRRB. What was worrying is that whilst
the remit letter didn’t restrict PRRB, it did highlight that the Government will provide additional economic information to them.
PFEW has already begun its own
work to highlight areas where it believes allowances should be either created or increased. This is alongside evidence around what the annual increase in
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