Chancellor George Osborne should use next week’s Autumn Statement to freeze spending on public sector pay, benefits and international aid and ignore calls to extend wealth taxes, the Centre for...
Scotland’s council leaders are ending their two-year staff pay freeze, offering a 1% rise plus a guaranteed minimum ‘living wage’ of £7.50 an hour from next April.
Equal pay claims against Birmingham City Council are set to total at least £757m and will present a major financial challenge, the authority has revealed.
The governance and regulatory systems proposed in the Public Sector Pensions Bill could be ‘extraordinarily complex and onerous’ for even the best run pension schemes, the chief executive of the...
The government has still not approved proposed reforms to the Local Government Pension Scheme after nearly six months of negotiations, trade unions and council employers have revealed.
The first female general secretary of the TUC will have her work cut out dealing with public sector disputes and the union brothers. But don’t expect Frances O’Grady to start tub-thumping any time...
Halfway through its term in office, the coalition is still looking for a route map to recovery. The chancellor’s Autumn Statement must offer some way out of here, argues Steve Freer
The government’s reforms to public sector pensions will reduce the average value of an individual’s scheme by more than a third, an independent assessment by the Pensions Policy Institute has...
Hopes that the three year council pay freeze could end next year have increased after local government employers indicated they were prepared to make an ‘appropriate’ offer to unions.
There is a risk of ‘massive industrial unrest’ in the NHS over the next year if the current pay freeze for staff is not ended, trade union Unison said today.
The coalition government has very little knowledge or understanding of the impact its public sector workforce cuts are having, the Work Foundation warned today.
Two local authority pension funds are among the six founding investors in a Treasury-backed agency set up to boost investment in capital projects across the UK.
Many employees in local government and the NHS could be being paid in a way that can lead to tax avoidance, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
A successful outcome to the negotiations over next year’s local government pay deal is vital to ensure the future of the currently ‘moribund’ national pay framework for council workers, a senior...
