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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.
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7 Mar 13
A leaked Scottish Government memo has warned of potential public spending cuts in an independent Scotland due to the high volatility in tax revenues from the oil industry.
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7 Mar 13
Ministers have confirmed that council pension funds will be able to double the amount they can invest in infrastructure projects from next month.
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5 Mar 13
The way senior managers’ pay rises were decided at Caerphilly County Borough Council last year was unlawful, auditors have ruled in a public interest report.
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1 Mar 13
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has urged councils to cut back on the support they give to their employees to undertake trade union work.
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27 Feb 13
Unison has urged its local government members to reject both pay offers made by Local Government Employers.
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27 Feb 13
NHS trade unions say they have halted moves towards regional pay deals in the health service after agreeing changes to national employment terms yesterday.
10 Jun 13The government’s welfare reforms are helping to keep public sector employment prospects buoyant this year, a survey shows.
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.
29 Apr 13Local 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...
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
14 Mar 13Pay 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.
7 Mar 13Ministers have confirmed that council pension funds will be able to double the amount they can invest in infrastructure projects from next month.
5 Mar 13The way senior managers’ pay rises were decided at Caerphilly County Borough Council last year was unlawful, auditors have ruled in a public interest report.
27 Feb 13NHS trade unions say they have halted moves towards regional pay deals in the health service after agreeing changes to national employment terms yesterday.
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