Business group seeks an end to benchmarking

A LEADING business body last night criticised public service support for small firms as “abysmal” and demanded that benchmarking be replaced by performance-related pay.

ISME is to take its complaints to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to try and “shame” ministers into reform.

The lobby group of small and medium employers insists a “bloated” public service is holding back the economy rather than supporting it.