People born in the 1960s and 1970s are the first post-war generation that will be no better off than their parents, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said today
The public sector employment outlook has deteriorated in the last three months, with employers now unlikely to hire extra staff, a poll by recruiters Manpower has found.
If we’re all in this together, why are pensioners given special treatment? The government should ensure that older workers are no longer exempt from National Insurance Contributions and that pensions...
Automatic pay rises for older doctors are to be phased out and savings re-invested in general practice under changes to the GP contract, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today.
Recent good news on the jobs front should not obscure the fact that real wages have been falling for at least four years. Overall, the wage squeeze has created a lost decade for pay
The Department for Work and Pensions needs to take ‘immediate steps’ to allow people to save into collective defined contribution pensions, the Royal Society of Arts think-tank said today.
The average Briton is in denial about the burgeoning costs of old age. But then, so are politicians. Radical reforms to the housing and planning systems are needed to avert a pensions and care crisis
Local government trade unions have reiterated their call for all councils to pay staff the Living Wage as the annual uprating of the hourly rate was announced today
The Fire Brigades Union has called on the government to reopen pension talks after it staged a two-hour strike this morning – its third walkout during the ongoing dispute
The government’s approach to reform of the Local Government Pension Scheme is unnecessarily narrow, the chair of England’s largest council pension fund has told Public Finance
Scotland’s 32 local authorities voted today to impose a two-year pay settlement on their staff after almost a year of negotiations with the trade unions failed to bring about an agreement
Scottish Government ministers should set out more details about how much public money would be available to pay for the state pension if the country votes for independence, financial experts have said
The government is to seek advice from financial markets experts to identify ‘vital’ administrative savings in the management of town hall pensions, the local government minister has announced.
The Local Government Pension Scheme is undergoing a number of changes, including greater scrutiny of valuation assumptions. Chief finance officers need to ask the right questions to avoid any...
The Greater Manchester Pension Fund is to be one of the investors in an £800m commercial development at Manchester Airport, Chancellor George Osborne has announced
Firefighters in England and Wales are to stage a second strike next week in response to what they say are ‘attacks’ by ministers on their pensions, the Fire Brigades Union announced today
There remains a ‘significant’ pay premium for workers in the public sector despite the government’s two-year freeze on wages, the Policy Exchange think-tank claimed today.