A senior Liberal Democrat in local government has warned that pay for some council workers could fall below the legal National Minimum Wage threshold next year if it is frozen for the fourth year in...
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney is to end the public sector pay freeze and boost capital spending, he announced today in his draft Budget for 2013/14.
The government has today published legislation to bring in its controversial reforms to public sector pensions, which ministers claim will save £65bn over the next 50 years.
Former Kent County Council chief executive Katherine Kerswell has joined the Cabinet Office as director general for civil service reform to take forward the government’s plans for Whitehall.
Members of the National Union of Teachers have voted to take strike action over what the union claims has been an ‘onslaught of attacks on the teaching profession’ by the government. The union will...
The Royal College of Nurses has warned that moves to introduce regional pay in the NHS would ‘drain staff away’ from low pay areas and hit patient care.
Tony Blair tried it and still has the scars on his back. Now the coalition is having a go at reforming Whitehall. Civil service chief Sir Bob Kerslake tells Richard Johnstone why this time it will...
Police representatives and the Home Office have struck a deal on future pensions for officers and staff, as part of the government’s changes to all public sector schemes.
Introducing local pay into the public sector would free more than £6bn a year that could help create more than a quarter of a million jobs, the Policy Exchange think-tank claimed today.
Councils have joined trade unions in backing the government’s proposed reforms to the Local Government Pension Scheme, clearing the path for the changes to be introduced in April 2014.
Government reforms will cut the cost of public sector pensions by 40% over the next 50 years, according to forecasts published by the Office of Budget Responsibility today.
The Local Government Association and Unison have both rejected fresh claims from the Taxpayers’ Alliance that pensions for council workers are unaffordable.
Working families with children have been dealt a ‘triple financial blow’ in the recession through cuts to tax credits and rising costs of childcare and transport, according to the Joseph Rowntree...
Almost two-thirds of school bursars and business managers believe their pay is too low for the responsibility they carry, according to a survey by the National Association of Head Teachers.
Police forces in England and Wales have improved their handling of antisocial behaviour in the past two years, but there are still significant variations in victim satisfaction levels, the...
Three-quarters of people believe the government should assess the economic impact of regionalised public sector pay before introducing it, a Trades Union Congress poll revealed today.