AS other correspondents have said, there is absolutely no justification for the huge salary increases awarded to some Oxford City Council senior managers for actually doing the job they were employed to do.
Which part of Labour’s Liam Byrnes “there’s no money left” does Bob Price not understand?
As for the fig leaf excuse (“We need to offer salaries comparable to other public sector bodies”) doesn’t anyone realise that this excuse is used by exactly those public sector bodies to justify their increases – thereby continuing the insane merry go round?
How do all these increases for top salary earners square with the Labour party’s desire to reduce inequalities and pay gaps, let alone set an example of restraint to those being paid considerably less?
Paul Wilson, Kennedy Close, Oxford
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