Pay restraint, pay parity and pay equity: What does it mean for primary care?

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Pay restraint, pay parity and pay equity: What does it mean for primary care?

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Whether "visible pay restraint" in the public sector is the same as a pay freeze is debatable but health unions report it is having a chilling effect on negotiations

Reporter Fiona Cassie backgrounds how public sector pay restraint messages and DHB pay moves could affect the publicly funded primary care sector

General practices last year learned just how much public sector pay trends can affect them, when practice nurses walked off the job seeking pay parity