Public Servants

public servants: Virtually all growth in federal public service pay over the last 11 years has merely kept up with inflation, and additional hires comprised about half of the extra $7.8 billion in pay for public servants between 2001-02 and 2011-12, the report shows, according to 660 News. New Democrat critics were quick to jump on the findings as evidence that the Harper government unfairly targeted public servants in their austerity measures and OTTAWA The latest report by Canadas parliamentary budget office appears to put to rest the myth of fat-cat public servants collecting far larger pay packets than their counterparts in the private sector. Salaries accounted for about 47 per cent of the increase, the office says, but 96 per cent of that was just to keep pace with inflation only four per cent could be counted as real income gains over the 11-year period covered by the study. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.