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1 Mar 19
MPs will receive an inflation-busting pay-rise in the coming year, it has been announced.
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1 Mar 19
Local government workers account for more than half of public sector workers who are paid less than the cost of living, a charity has found.
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22 Nov 18
Cash-strapped Somerset County Council has rowed back on proposals to force staff to take two days unpaid leave.
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12 Oct 18
Finance staff at Newham council in London have voted to take four days of strike action in a dispute over job evaluation and pay.
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17 Sep 18
Local government workers in Scotland have been urged to accept a revised 3% pay deal in order to avoid job losses and cuts to services.
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10 Sep 18
Low pay and the high cost of renting make home ownership a “pipe dream” for most public sector workers, a trade union has said.
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22 Aug 18
Unions are to resume talks with the government after their members turned down a pay increase worth 11% for some Ministry of Justice staff.
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9 Aug 18
Civil service unions have embarked on a legal challenge against the government over a failure to consult on their members’ annual pay rise, it has been announced.
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25 Jul 18
The total cost of the latest public sector pay rises announced by the government for some workers could be an extra £800m annually, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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24 Jul 18
A trade union leader has attacked the decision to fund pay rises for a million public sector workers from existing departmental budgets for spelling further cuts to jobs and services.
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2 Jul 18
NHS pay systems are outdated, inflexible and “frequently unfair” and should be reformed to motivate staff to perform better, the Centre for Policy Studies has argued.
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8 Jun 18
The main civil service union will hold a strike ballot after rejecting a “derisory” 1% government pay offer.
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4 Jun 18
Action on closing gender pay gaps should be based on sound evidence - not quick fixes, says Public Services People Managers Association’s president Karen Grave.
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4 May 18
Analysis of gender pay gaps by CIPFA shows hourly income rates in all types of local authorities are higher for men than women. Reporting by Vivienne Russell.
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12 Apr 18
Trade unions have accepted the local government pay offer, though a fresh dispute looms over an increase for council chief executives.
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9 Apr 18
The local government employee 2% pay offer is now expected to go ahead, after Unison confirmed to PF it had finally accepted the proposed rise.
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6 Mar 18
Discrimination in the workplace costs the UK economy £127bn in lost output each year, according to a report from the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
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16 Jan 18
The Unite union has asked its local government members to turn down a 2% pay rise offer because it does not keep track with inflation.
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19 Dec 17
Seven government departments have a gender pay gap of more than 10%, according to a series of reports released under equalities legislation.
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5 Dec 17
More than 1 million council workers could be in line for 2% pay increases in each of the next two years, following an offer set out by employers today.
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23 Nov 17
Bodies representing public sector workers have criticised the lack of action on the pay cap in the Budget yesterday.
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17 Nov 17
Pay and benefits was the only area that saw a drop in civil servant satisfaction from last year, according to a survey.
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31 Oct 17
More than a third of councils are paying their staff more mileage than they should, according to the campaign group the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
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18 Oct 17
Real-terms earnings fell 0.4% compared with a year ago according to the latest labour market figures from the Office for National Statistics.
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9 Oct 17
Civil servants in Scotland will be offered a 2% pay rise in November as talks continue over Nicola Sturgeon’s commitment to lift the public sector pay cap.