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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NHS pay systems are outdated, inflexible and “frequently unfair” and should be reformed to motivate staff to perform better, the Centre for Policy Studies has argued.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.
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26 Sep 17
The government is pushing for less generous civil servant exit packages than those found to be unlawful by a judicial review.
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15 Sep 17
Health unions have written directly to the chancellor to demand a 3.9% pay hike and an additional £800 per person to cover some of the pay lost since the public sector pay cap was introduced.
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12 Sep 17
The government has announced the first public sector pay rise above 1% in seven years - but the increase is still below inflation.
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11 Sep 17
The government is expected to lift the 1% pay cap on police and prison officer salaries following recommendations from their respective pay review bodies.
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7 Sep 17
The government has hinted the 1% pay sector cap could be lifted and that all could be revealed in the autumn Budget. But will public sector pay really be raised significantly? asks IPPR...
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7 Aug 17
Claims by a government minister that senior civil service pay needs to be restrained have been criticised by the FDA union.
22 Aug 18Unions are to resume talks with the government after their members turned down a pay increase worth 11% for some Ministry of Justice staff.
9 Aug 18Civil 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.
24 Jul 18A 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.
2 Jul 18NHS 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.
8 Jun 18The main civil service union will hold a strike ballot after rejecting a “derisory” 1% government pay offer.
4 Jun 18Action on closing gender pay gaps should be based on sound evidence - not quick fixes, says Public Services People Managers Association’s president Karen Grave.
4 May 18Analysis 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.
5 Dec 17More 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.
17 Nov 17Pay and benefits was the only area that saw a drop in civil servant satisfaction from last year, according to a survey.
31 Oct 17More than a third of councils are paying their staff more mileage than they should, according to the campaign group the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
9 Oct 17Civil 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.
15 Sep 17Health unions have written directly to the chancellor to demand a 3.9% pay hike and an additional £800 per person to cover some of the pay lost since the public sector pay cap was introduced.
12 Sep 17The government has announced the first public sector pay rise above 1% in seven years - but the increase is still below inflation.
11 Sep 17The government is expected to lift the 1% pay cap on police and prison officer salaries following recommendations from their respective pay review bodies.
