Analysis of gender pay gaps by CIPFA shows hourly income rates in all types of local authorities are higher for men than women. Reporting by Vivienne Russell.
Public sector employment in the UK fell by 132,000 between September and December last year because of housing association reclassification, official figures have shown.
Conditions in the National Health Service have worsened in the last year and staff feel unable to provide the standard of care they have been trained to deliver.
Discrimination in the workplace costs the UK economy £127bn in lost output each year, according to a report from the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
MPs will receive a 1.8% pay rise for the coming financial year, raising the salary to £77,379 from April, the parliamentary standards watchdog has revealed.
Stricken Northamptonshire County Council is planning to impose further budgets cuts and has been told that its adult care service is close to being unsafe.
Talks in the bitter university pensions dispute are due to resume tomorrow but the University and College Union has warned that these are likely to prove fruitless.
Strikes over proposed changes to university staff pensions are expected to affect 500,000 teaching hours over 14 days, the University and College Union has said.
Scottish councils have called for greater certainty over local government funding in the future to allow them to deal with long term pressures such as pay.
A trade union is calling for vice chancellors to be barred from attending remuneration committee meetings after 95% of the UK’s universities were found to allow vice-chancellors to go to them.
Public sector pay restrictions will force 150,000 extra children into poverty by the end of this financial year, according to the Trade Union Congress.
Public services trade union Unison has called for a set of principles – similar to standards adopted in the 1990s - imposed on private contractors that deliver public works.
London’s deputy mayor for policing has said the government’s funding settlement is “smoke and mirrors” and warned the number of officers in the capital could dip below 30,000 because of cuts.