Doctor, nurse and support staff vacancies within the NHS in England have risen to above 100,000, according to analysis of freedom of information figures obtained by the Labour Party.
High Speed Rail 2’s £1.76m of unauthorised redundancy payments could have been avoided with tighter financial control, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
More than 1 million council workers could be in line for 2% pay increases in each of the next two years, following an offer set out by employers today.
Further reforms are needed to cope with ageing populations as global public spending on pensions has risen by about 1.5% of GDP since 2000, the OECD has said.
The transport provider FirstGroup has announced plans to consolidate its pension scheme assets within the Local Government Pension Scheme, in the first move of its kind by a private sector employer.
A probe into the competitiveness of pension investment consultancy firms could mean more regulation for organisations giving advice to local authorities but greater protection for clients.
Trainee GPs will receive a £20,000 ‘golden hello’ if they work in areas struggling to recruit, such as rural and coastal areas, Jeremy Hunt has announced today.
Civil servants in Scotland will be offered a 2% pay rise in November as talks continue over Nicola Sturgeon’s commitment to lift the public sector pay cap.
Scrapping the 1% pay increase cap for public sector workers could cost the Treasury £6bn a year by 2019/20, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies research.