{"id":78748,"date":"2026-02-19T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/ministers-must-end-barking-mad-restraints-on-civil-service-pay-union-leader-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:00:15","slug":"ministers-must-end-barking-mad-restraints-on-civil-service-pay-union-leader-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/ministers-must-end-barking-mad-restraints-on-civil-service-pay-union-leader-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers must end \u2018barking mad\u2019 restraints on civil service pay, union leader warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7302bce59f998ed234b1229132cbed8cb2a711b1\/1120_0_5600_4480\/master\/5600.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=eaba4d0e7ab0c7bb14ca63477f92c274\" alt=\"Ministers must end \u2018barking mad\u2019 restraints on civil service pay, union leader warns\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Ministers must end \u2018barking mad\u2019 restraints on civil service pay, union leader warns<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Exclusive: Prospect boss Mike Clancy cites problems retaining technical and digital expertsMinisters must end \u201cbarking mad\u201d restraints on civil service pay or risk being unable to recruit the technical and digital specialists it needs to keep pace, a union leader has warned.Mike Clancy, the Prospect general secretary, said the government should end the \u201crightwing trope\u201d that restrained the pay of highly skilled civil servants and left government unable to compete with the private sector. He said it should be realistic for senior specialists in competitive fields to be paid more than the prime minister. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/feb\/19\/ministers-must-end-restraints-civil-service-pay-regulators-mike-clancy-prospect-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Ministers must end \u2018barking mad\u2019 restraints on civil service pay, union leader warns Exclusive: Prospect boss<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":78749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}