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29 Nov 12
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...
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23 Nov 12
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.
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12 Nov 12
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.
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12 Nov 12
The Department for Communities and Local Government has been slated for ‘complacent and weak’ oversight of council pension schemes in London.
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9 Nov 12
Decisions to dismiss council chief executives and finance directors will no longer be subject to independent review, Eric Pickles said today.
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8 Nov 12
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...
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7 Nov 12
Female executives in the public sector earn almost £6,000 less a year on average than their male counterparts, a survey has revealed.
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6 Nov 12
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles today revealed plans to allow council pension funds to double the amount they can invest in infrastructure schemes.
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5 Nov 12
Government contracts should be used to encourage the roll-out of the ‘Living Wage’ across the country, Labour leader Ed Miliband said today.
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1 Nov 12
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.
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29 Oct 12
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...
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26 Oct 12
Local government pension funds should invest up to £10bn in new housing, a report from the Future Homes Commission said today.
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25 Oct 12
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
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24 Oct 12
The Supreme Court has ruled that 174 former employees of Birmingham City Council can pursue equal pay claims.
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23 Oct 12
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...
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23 Oct 12
NHS Employers has urged the health service pay review body to reject trade union calls for a pay increase for staff.
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22 Oct 12
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.
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22 Oct 12
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.
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18 Oct 12
The coalition government has very little knowledge or understanding of the impact its public sector workforce cuts are having, the Work Foundation warned today.
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18 Oct 12
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.
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17 Oct 12
Local government unions have called for a ‘substantial’ pay rise to bring council workers’ wages into line with inflation and living costs.
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5 Oct 12
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.
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1 Oct 12
The data needed to make regional pay in the public sector work is missing, a leading economist has told Public Finance.
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28 Sep 12
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...
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25 Sep 12
Almost two-thirds of voters think the government should drop its plans to introduce regional pay in the public sector.
29 Nov 12Chancellor 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...
23 Nov 12Scotland’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.
9 Nov 12Decisions to dismiss council chief executives and finance directors will no longer be subject to independent review, Eric Pickles said today.
6 Nov 12Communities Secretary Eric Pickles today revealed plans to allow council pension funds to double the amount they can invest in infrastructure schemes.
29 Oct 12The 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...
25 Oct 12Halfway 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
24 Oct 12The Supreme Court has ruled that 174 former employees of Birmingham City Council can pursue equal pay claims.
23 Oct 12The 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...
22 Oct 12Hopes 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.
22 Oct 12There 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.
18 Oct 12The coalition government has very little knowledge or understanding of the impact its public sector workforce cuts are having, the Work Foundation warned today.
18 Oct 12Two 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.
5 Oct 12Many 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.
28 Sep 12A 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...
