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.
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.
The government is expected to lift the 1% pay cap on police and prison officer salaries following recommendations from their respective pay review bodies.
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...
Teachers across England and Wales face a seventh consecutive year of a 1% pay increase based on the recommendation of a review body’s analysis of earnings.
Concern about public sector pay limits has focused on NHS and emergency service workers. But pay for more than a million school and council workers has been kept down for longer and it’s time...
Tax rises or looser fiscal plans would be needed before chancellor Philip Hammond could remove the public sector pay cap, unfreeze benefits and undo planned spending cuts, the Resolution...
Staff whose pay is determined by public sector pay review bodies (PRB) saw their earnings fall by 3.1% in the decade to 2015, research for the Office of Manpower Economics has found.
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.
Public sector workers will be among the worst hit by the stagnation in real term wage increases revealed in today’s Office for National Statistics employment figures, the Resolution...
Public sector wages are set to fall for the next three years in real terms, due to rising inflation and continuing government pay restraint, the Resolution Foundation has found.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has suggested salaries paid by companies delivering public sector contracts could be capped as part of plans to reduce pay inequality.
