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The kindest cut of all
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Whatever else the Government is planning for GB Ltd in the next financial year, which starts in four weeks time, there must be some relaxation of the Pay Code and some flexibility. I hear this week of operators who have stuck rigidly to the guidelines and by doing so they have lost valuable members of staff, Particularly disturbing is the drift of maintenance people: men who know the vehicles — not only the makes and models but the idiosyncracies of each one — are not easily replaced.
I understand that the movement of mechanics is beginning to show in the large companies as they drift off to small units or form their own maintenance companies. The signs are only just beginning to show, I'm told. Now is the time for remedial action, and there's nothing than cures the financial ills of the individual quicker or more effectively than a little bit extra in his pay packet.
So as Mr Healey sits down this weekend to prepare his Budget, let him decide to ask the Treasury boys to find a way round the Pay Code. A tax cut will do.