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26 Jun 13
Public sector pay rises are to be limited to an average of 1% in 2015/16, the chancellor confirmed today as he set out plans for that year in his Spending Review.
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24 Jun 13
A joint employer and trade union exercise is to look at how the National Health Service will cope with a higher pension age.
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21 Jun 13
The Local Government Pension Scheme faces a shake-up as Whitehall and local government leaders try to better co-ordinate the 89 funds.
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19 Jun 13
Pay deals for top civil servants are becoming so ‘financially unattractive’ that it is increasingly difficult to retain talented people in Whitehall, the National Audit Office warned today.
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13 Jun 13
Business leaders have called on Chancellor George Osborne to restrain public sector pay, ending automatic salary increases based on tenure.
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12 Jun 13
Public sector employment in the UK continues to decline, falling by 22,000 to 5.7 million over the first three months of the year, official figures show.
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10 Jun 13
The government’s welfare reforms are helping to keep public sector employment prospects buoyant this year, a survey shows.
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3 Jun 13
The Treasury is clamping down on annually managed expenditure to cut the welfare bill. A far better strategy, argues James Lloyd, would be to split the DWP into two, with a ministry for working-age...
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24 May 13
Five local authority pension schemes are forming a £250m investment fund to back infrastructure projects that will boost local economic growth.
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23 May 13
The two separate National Insurance rates paid by self-employed people act as an ‘open invitation’ for tax avoidance and should be scrapped, the CentreForum think-tank said today.
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23 May 13
Around 14,000 public sector staff in Scotland received redundancy or early retirement payments between 2010 and 2012 at an initial cost of £561m, an Audit Scotland report revealed today.
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22 May 13
Local government minister Brandon Lewis has set out plans to undertake a ‘root-and-branch review’ of the Local Government Pension Scheme’s investment regulations. The possibility of merging schemes...
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9 May 13
The number of UK council staff earning more than £100,000 fell by 11% in 2011/12, according to the Taxpayers' Alliance.
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8 May 13
Women who are senior managers in the UK public sector are likely to be disproportionately affected by the government’s spending cuts, Ernst & Young has said.
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1 May 13
The public sector is a vastly more popular option for jobseekers than the private sector, despite the government’s cuts, according to a poll published today.
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29 Apr 13
Local government employees have been hit by a double whammy. Already underpaid and undervalued compared with other sectors, they are now bearing the brunt of public service cuts, argues Heather...
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25 Apr 13
Government ministers want council pension funds to work closer together and ‘do not rule out’ implementing mergers of existing funds, the man leading pension reforms at the Department for Communities...
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24 Apr 13
Council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been offered a ‘best possible’ 1% pay increase for the current year, local authority employers announced today.
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18 Apr 13
The Department for Education has issued guidance to English schools on introducing performance-related pay for teachers from September.
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12 Apr 13
Pay rises for public sector bosses are lagging behind those for similar roles in the private sector, a survey by the Chartered Management Institute has found.
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4 Apr 13
MPs have urged ministers to look again at the costs of creating a single-tier state pension, warning that bringing forward the change could have ‘significant implications’ for public sector employers.
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28 Mar 13
The shortfall in public sector pensions is set to double over the next six years, according to the Centre for Policy Studies’ analysis of Budget figures.
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18 Mar 13
George Osborne's announcement that care cost and pension reforms are to be brought forward a year sounds like good news. But there's a catch
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14 Mar 13
Pay for public sector staff such as NHS workers and senior civil servants will rise by an average of 1% from April, the Treasury confirmed this afternoon.
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12 Mar 13
Hiring in the public sector has received a surprise boost after several depressed quarters, according to recruiters Manpower.
26 Jun 13Public sector pay rises are to be limited to an average of 1% in 2015/16, the chancellor confirmed today as he set out plans for that year in his Spending Review.
19 Jun 13Pay deals for top civil servants are becoming so ‘financially unattractive’ that it is increasingly difficult to retain talented people in Whitehall, the National Audit Office warned today.
3 Jun 13The Treasury is clamping down on annually managed expenditure to cut the welfare bill. A far better strategy, argues James Lloyd, would be to split the DWP into two, with a ministry for working-age...
22 May 13Local government minister Brandon Lewis has set out plans to undertake a ‘root-and-branch review’ of the Local Government Pension Scheme’s investment regulations. The possibility of merging schemes...
9 May 13The number of UK council staff earning more than £100,000 fell by 11% in 2011/12, according to the Taxpayers' Alliance.
24 Apr 13Council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been offered a ‘best possible’ 1% pay increase for the current year, local authority employers announced today.
4 Apr 13MPs have urged ministers to look again at the costs of creating a single-tier state pension, warning that bringing forward the change could have ‘significant implications’ for public sector employers.
18 Mar 13George Osborne's announcement that care cost and pension reforms are to be brought forward a year sounds like good news. But there's a catch
