The improved teachers’ pay offer will do little to reverse the real-terms cut to salaries since 2010, researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have said amid strike action.
Many Local Government Pension Schemes are in a stronger position than three years ago to meet future member benefits, pension advisors have said following the most recent valuations.
Welsh ministers have tabled an improved pay offer for health staff in a bid to end ongoing strike action, having “drawn on reserves and underspends from across government” to find the money to...
Higher life expectancy could see pension and social care costs exceed more than a quarter of government spending over the long term, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
New gloomy predictions of long-term economic growth suggest pensions promised to public sector workers will be more costly than anticipated, economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have warned.
Scottish council leaders have claimed the latest local government pay offer is fair and recognises the importance of the workforce, despite opposition from unions.
The news agenda moves fast. Stay on top of some key stories from around the sector, including on pay, the UK Infrastructure Bank and the SNP leadership.
Older people bring multiple benefits to the workplace. The new Age-Friendly Employer Pledge aims to help organisations make the most of this underused asset.
The Budget contained billions of pounds of tax cuts for businesses and measures aimed at getting people back to work, but elephants in the room such as public sector pay and struggling services...
Northern Ireland’s largest public sector union has become the latest to approve industrial action, which could go as far as strikes, following “the worst pay offer that any public sector worker has...
Scotland’s largest teaching union has rejected a pay offer it labelled insufficient, and signalled that planned strikes will continue until a better offer is tabled.
Government proposals to move the date for annual Local Government Pension Scheme valuations mere weeks before the valuations take place will create further administrative burdens for funds, experts...
The three major unions representing council workers in England have requested an above inflation pay offer for 2023-24, to start reversing “years of pay erosion”.
