▦ World History Database
Archive visits —
Permanent historical factsheet archive

Pay Policy

Great Britain · Government / Labour Party Government. Chronological records from PostgreSQL.

Create a factsheetBrowse all countriesSearch full database

Pay Policy — page 2 of 2

25 records per page
34records in this factsheet
2pages
1977–1979years on this page

1977

Pay Policy

Callaghan, James · London · Prime Minister of Great Britain

Insists the government must hold the line on pay to protect economic recovery.

Pay Policy

Callaghan, James · London · Prime Minister of Great Britain

Uses pay policy to argue that lower inflation can protect jobs.

1978

Pay Policy

Healey, Denis Winston · London · Chancellor of the Exchequer

Healey introduces a White Paper setting a five percent pay guideline.

Pay Policy

Callaghan, James · London · Prime Minister of Great Britain

Backs the five percent pay guideline despite union warnings.

Pay Policy

Healey, Denis Winston · London · Chancellor of the Exchequer

Healey backs a five percent pay guideline before the winter's industrial unrest.

Pay Policy

Healey, Denis Winston · London · Chancellor of the Exchequer

Healey privately doubts whether the five percent limit can be sustained.

Pay Policy

Callaghan, James · London · Prime Minister of Great Britain

Faces the collapse of the five percent policy after major private-sector settlements.

Pay Policy

Booth, Albert · London · Secretary of State for Employment

Faces mounting union opposition to the five percent guideline.

1979

Pay Policy

Callaghan, James · London · Prime Minister of Great Britain

Sees the pay policy breakdown damage Labour before the general election.

Provenance and editorial notes

This factsheet contains records exported from PostgreSQL public.historical_events. Duplicate display records have been collapsed. Stored wording is otherwise presented without historical claims added by the generator. For academic citation, verify records against appropriate primary or specialist sources.