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What business is this of central government? Local government is elected (unlike Rishi). If voters elect their councillors to do this, what business is it of Westminster to overrule them? If voters are unhappy about these policies, they have the chance to express that unhappiness come election day.
Also, this is a basic value for money thing. Public sector roles do not pay well. If you want to get good quality people into the public sector, you have to offer them a suitable reward proposition - and if you can't do it through money, you have to offer them something else like flexibility. But the private sector has become a lot more flexible since Covid and so the public sector needs to change its offering to retain some sort of USP.
Do the Tories not care about value for taxpayer money? (Rhetorical question: of course they don't, they've spent the last few years spaffing it up the wall to their mates...)
I don't even think it's that, but as is always the case with conservatives - the suffering is the point. They don't want happy workers, they want desperate workers, those are easier to continue abusing and much less likely to unionise or protest (because they don't have the time or energy to d anything but survive)
What do you mean what business is this to the central gov? Their job is to uphold the liberal order, to ensure that workers keep working.