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19 Dec 14
NHS trade unions in England have announced two new days of strike action in January and February in an escalation of pay dispute with government.
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12 Dec 14
The government’s new pensioner bonds will pay interest at 2.8% for a one-year bond and 4% for a three-year bond, Chancellor George Osborne has announced.
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10 Dec 14
Public sector job prospects have improved in the last three months, with employers now forecasting no net losses of staff, according to the Manpower Group’s Employment Outlook Survey.
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1 Dec 14
Over half of all home care workers are on zero-hour contracts, and as many as 220,000 could be paid less than the National Minimum Wage, a study has found.
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24 Nov 14
Workers across the NHS have today taken strike action in protest at a government decision to not award a cost-of-living pay increase to all members of staff.
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20 Nov 14
The Welsh government has agreed a pay deal with trade unions for NHS staff in Wales.
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14 Nov 14
Members of all three local government unions have voted to accept a two-year pay deal from the Local Government Association, resolving a dispute that had seen workers take strike action.
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5 Nov 14
Welsh Assembly members have called for ‘greater consistency and clarity’ on pay for senior public sector managers.
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28 Oct 14
The government plans to claw back redundancy payments from NHS and council managers who return to work in the same sector within a year, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
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27 Oct 14
Lecturers at 69 UK universities will start an assessment boycott next week in a row over pension changes, the University and College Union announced today.
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22 Oct 14
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has today launched an initiative to cut the rising administrative workload faced by teachers, as part of measures to help public sector workers.
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20 Oct 14
Government efforts to curb tax avoidance will be undermined by low pay in civil service tax jobs, according to The Association of Revenue and Customs.
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16 Oct 14
Proposed changes to the pension scheme for university staff could see final salary benefits being phased out and a new defined contribution element introduced for high earners.
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16 Oct 14
Regular reporting of the long-term effects of policy choices being made by government on the overall public finances and their impacts on different generations is essential if public spending plans...
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14 Oct 14
Civil service members of the Public and Commercial Services union are to strike today over pay.
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10 Oct 14
Some 20% of NHS workers need a second job to make ends meet, a survey by trade union Unison has found as strike action takes place across the health service today.
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10 Oct 14
Local government trade unions have suspended strike action planned for next Tuesday following a revised pay proposal from the Local Government Association.
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9 Oct 14
The gap between public and private sector pay that opened up during the recession has been closed as a result of Chancellor George Osborne’s restrictions, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
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26 Sep 14
A pay offer that would have given council workers a 2.2% increase over 15 months was put before unions in return for them abandoning next month’s strike action, the Local Government Association has...
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18 Sep 14
Unison’s health workers have voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action in the ongoing pay dispute.
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11 Sep 14
Councils have been urged by MPs to improve the scrutiny of pay deals for senior officers to ensure there is never a return to ‘inflation-busting’ increases in top jobs.
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11 Sep 14
A former chair of the Local Government Association has called on ministers to lift the restrictions on the investments that members of the Local Government Pension Scheme can make in a bid to help...
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8 Sep 14
Public sector job prospects have fallen following a period of buoyancy, according to Manpower’s employment outlook survey.
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26 Aug 14
Strike action ballot papers have been dispatched today to 350,000 NHS workers in England by trade union Unison in a dispute over pay.
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19 Aug 14
New figures show that female bosses working in the public sector are still only earning three-quarters the salary of their male counterparts.
19 Dec 14NHS trade unions in England have announced two new days of strike action in January and February in an escalation of pay dispute with government.
14 Nov 14Members of all three local government unions have voted to accept a two-year pay deal from the Local Government Association, resolving a dispute that had seen workers take strike action.
5 Nov 14Welsh Assembly members have called for ‘greater consistency and clarity’ on pay for senior public sector managers.
28 Oct 14The government plans to claw back redundancy payments from NHS and council managers who return to work in the same sector within a year, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
10 Oct 14Some 20% of NHS workers need a second job to make ends meet, a survey by trade union Unison has found as strike action takes place across the health service today.
10 Oct 14Local government trade unions have suspended strike action planned for next Tuesday following a revised pay proposal from the Local Government Association.
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