The Treasury has confirmed 1% average pay rises for school teachers and police officers in line with government limits, which chief secretary Greg Hands said was vital to protect public services.
The Unite trade union has refused to approve the two-year pay offer for council workers, but acceptance from the other two officially recognised local government unions means the deal will be...
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.
The Treasury has today confirmed that pay increases for public sector workers in the NHS and armed forces will be capped at an average of 1%, but prison service staff are to receive an increase above...
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 Cabinet Office is developing plans for a separate senior payscale for commercial project managers within the civil service, which could include finance roles.
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...
Introduction of the national living wage is a welcome development. But it raises some big questions about the feasibility and fairness of pay restraint in the public sector.
It will be challenging for local authorities to implement the National Living Wage rate within the funding constraints of the government’s 1% cap on public sector pay increases, the Resolution...
Nearly a quarter of all employees are expected to benefit from the introduction of the new ‘National Living Wage’ rate from next April, according to a Resolution Foundation analysis.
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.
Introduction of a National Living Wage could cost councils more than £1bn a year by 2020/21 through additional payments to staff and to contractors, an analysis by the Local Government...
Public workers' pay remains under pressure as the deficit stubbornly refuses to shrink. But what counts as public sector pay in a world of outsourcing to the private sector and what does the...
As NHS staff ballot on industrial action – and discontent rises over pay and salary progression throughout the public sector – years of severe pay restraint are taking their toll
Much of the focus in debates about low pay has been on younger workers. But many older employees are stuck in low-paid jobs, and making little progress
Recent good news on the jobs front should not obscure the fact that real wages have been falling for at least four years. Overall, the wage squeeze has created a lost decade for pay
