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28 Jan 15
Eight NHS unions have called off industrial action planned for tomorrow after a new pay offer was made by the Department of Health.
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22 Jan 15
Local government pension funds in Manchester and London have formed a new partnership that will allocate £500m to invest in infrastructure projects.
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21 Jan 15
It’s emerging as a key election issue, yet the proportion of Britons in low-paid work has changed little in 20 years. So what can be done to tackle the barriers to improving poor pay, in both the...
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21 Jan 15
Jeremy Hunt has warned that strike action planned by NHS trade unions next week could put lives at risk at a time of record demand across the health service.
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14 Jan 15
NHS Employers has published proposals to reform health service pay in a bid to tackle the higher costs of providing more services at evenings and weekends.
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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.