The exodus of working-age people from their jobs since Covid-19 could be halted if the government takes action on pensions, childcare and widespread ill-health, but those who have already retired are...
The government has published statutory guidance seeking to restrict the level of exit payments made to local government employees above statutory or contractual limits.
Slough Borough Council has sacked its chief executive with immediate effect, following an investigation which alleged she failed to challenge or manage the authority’s budget.
A former director of commercial and income generation for South Somerset District Council was sacked by the authority after allegations she used authority staff and resources to work on a...
Thanet District Council has appointed a senior officer from a London Borough as an independent monitoring officer following a rare statutory recommendation by auditors.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed an extension to cash incentives for hiring new apprentices, as well as the flagship KickStart scheme to help boost employment.
The lowest proportion of people were employed in the UK's public sector in March 2018 since comparable records began 13 years ago, ONS figures have shown.
While employment in British cities appears robust, the quality of work on offer is often low and many people are under-employed. Dave Innes of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation asks what can be done to...
The UK unemployment rate has fallen to 4.6% - its lowest in 42 years - but wage growth falling behind inflation is causing a pay squeeze, official figures show.
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...
Labour would scrap Work Capability Assessments and the sanctions system for jobseekers as part what shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams called a plan to change the culture of the UK’s...
The number of people working in the UK’s public sector in June fell to the lowest level since comparable records began in 1999 according to the Office for National Statistics.
The EU has a great influence on who can work in the UK and how these staff are treated. Would the UK’s public sector be better or worse off without this source of labour and employment...
Facts and figures from the May 2016 edition of Public Finance magazine, on public sector employment, academy enthusiasm, trust in government, city regions and Brexit
Facts and figures from the Jan/Feb 2016 edition of Public Finance, including employment trends, pensions, cool welcomes across Europe, the perils of perception and a postmortem of election polling
