The Conservatives’ plans for public sector pay “risks exacerbating recruitment problems” while Labour’s proposals to increase pay would cost around £9bn a year, the...
The Liberal Democrats have committed to increasing public sector pay saying they would lift the government’s 1% pay cap and uprate wages in line with inflation.
Reading council – the only local authority in England and Wales never to settle an equal pay claim – will today face a court challenge from more than 60 women who say they are owed over £1.5m because...
The trade union Unison has decided to accept a two-year pay offer for council workers, becoming the second union to accept the deal from local government employers.
Chief secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands has defended the government’s public sector pay policy, stating that restraint in wages is a key part of the government’s deficit reduction plan.
Members of the GMB union in local government have voted to accept the two-year pay deal from council employers, the only one of the three main unions in the sector to do so.
Local government workers risk becoming the “whipping boy” for public sector austerity as a result of the pay offer from council employers, the Unite union has warned.
The Treasury today set out plans to further restrict public sector redundancy payments by better coordinating the rules for calculating payoffs across the civil service, the NHS and local government.
Whitehall spending on consultants, agency staff and interim managers has begun to rise again and the government should set a target to cut spending by 20% by the end of the decade, according to the...
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has insisted that the government has no plans to cut the overall pay bill for junior doctors under the terms of a new contract he is looking to negotiate with the British...
Cuts to benefits announced in the summer Budget will leave thousands of low-income households worse off next April despite the introduction of the “national living wage”, Unison claimed...
Not every public sector worker can expect to receive the 1% pay increase pledged in the summer Budget, the chief secretary to the Treasury has revealed.
The Treasury has announced a plan to cap redundancy payments across the public sector at £95,000 to end what Chief Secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands said were ‘golden goodbyes’ paid for by the...
Nearly a million public sector workers are to receive average pay increases of 1% in 2015/16, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has confirmed.