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.
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...
Fire minister Penny Mordaunt has launched an independent review of firefighters’ terms and conditions as the Fire Brigades Union hold a series of strikes in a lengthy dispute over pensions.
The Scottish Government’s policy to renationalise the Royal Mail if the country votes for independence on September 18 is ‘nothing more than an uncosted aspiration’, a Westminster parliamentary...
Trade unions have hit out at the decision by Danny Alexander to cancel the independent review of NHS pay for 2015/16, warning this would increase the likelihood of industrial action.
Council managers paid more than £100,000 by UK local authorities fell by 5% in 2012/13 to 2,181, according to an analysis of local authority accounts by the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
Local government trade unions have announced they will escalate their pay dispute with council employers by holding a second one-day strike across England, Wales and Northern Ireland on October 14.
The new chief executive of the civil service is to be paid up to £200,000 and should have significant private sector experience, according to the job description for the post.
Unison has called on council employers to come back to the negotiating table as it announced its local government and school support members would hold a second day of strike action on September 30.
Around one-fifth of NHS foundation trust hospitals have still to fully comply with Treasury rules restricting the use of off-payroll contractors, Monitor figures have revealed.
Public sector workers are more than £2,000 worse off since the coalition government came to power in 2010 as a result of pay restrictions, the Trades Union Congress said today.
Three local government trade unions are to strike on July 10 after members of Unite voted to join Unison and the GMB in taking action in a dispute over pay.
Low pay costs the public purse between £3.6bn and £6bn every year in tax credits to boost wages and the government should encourage employers to pay the Living Wage to reduce this subsidy, a report...
Part-time workers in local government and schools are being ‘exploited’ by being made to work unpaid overtime to plug service gaps caused by job cuts, Unison has claimed.
The number of people working in the public sector has fallen to its lowest level in 16 years after the part-privatisation of Lloyds Banking Group led to nearly 100,000 posts being reclassified in the...
Over half of teachers in English state schools support using pupils’ progress and results to determine whether they should receive a pay increase, a poll for the Sutton Trust has found.