Part-time workers in local government and schools are being ‘exploited’ by being made to work unpaid overtime to plug service gaps caused by job cuts, Unison has claimed.
The number of people working in the public sector has fallen to its lowest level in 16 years after the part-privatisation of Lloyds Banking Group led to nearly 100,000 posts being reclassified in the...
The National Audit Office has qualified the Whole of Government Accounts for the fourth successive year because of concerns with the quality and consistency of data.
Over half of teachers in English state schools support using pupils’ progress and results to determine whether they should receive a pay increase, a poll for the Sutton Trust has found.
NHS organisations have been issued with guidance on how to link pay to performance in a bid to ensure salary increases coupled to progression result in improved care.
Plans to limit pay-offs to senior public service managers and moves to increase the amount of public sector land available for development were among the measures confirmed in today’s Queen’s Speech.
Trade union Unite has said it has ‘a strong mandate’ from its NHS members to reject the government’s pay offer for health service workers, a move that could lead to industrial action.
A future Labour government would increase the number of people auto-enrolled in workplace pension schemes in a bid to cut the amount spent on old age benefits, shadow work and pensions secretary...
It’s no longer just the bottom 20% of society who are anxious about their future. In the new class structure of industrialised countries, where jobs growth is in services, white-collar and...
Proposed reforms to the Local Government Pension Scheme must ensure long-term stability as well cost savings, the National Association of Pension Funds has said.
Local government and school staff are to hold protests across the country today as trade union Unison steps up its campaign against the pay offer made by council employers.
The GMB trade union has announced it will ballot members in councils and schools on planned strike action for July 10 after rejecting the Local Government Association’s offer of a 1% pay increase for...
Labour has proposed linking the National Minimum Wage to average earnings in a bid to cut the cost of low pay to the public finances, estimated at more than £3.2bn.
The Scottish Parliament has rejected a Labour move to enforce payment of the Living Wage on all firms undertaking public contracts in Scotland, after Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the...
A review of the Local Government Pension Scheme has ruled out mergers of the 89 funds in England, but has concluded that as much as £660m a year could be saved through greater use of common...
Trade union Unite is to ballot council workers over strike action in a dispute over pay with local government employers – the second union in the sector to do so.
People should be given a window of several years during which they can start receiving the state pension, consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers have suggested.
Annuities reform was the big ticket item in the chancellor’s ‘makers, doers and savers’ Budget, but at what cost to the public purse? PF talks to pensions minister Steve Webb about...
Trade union Unison has announced that it is to ballot 600,000 council workers over strike action after members rejected a pay offer by the local government employers.
Take-home pay in the public sector has fallen in real terms over the last year, an analysis published today has found, despite official figures showing that wages across the economy are catching up...
The Treasury must do more to boost confidence in the ability of the public sector to manage and report the use of off-payroll arrangements to pay staff, a House of Lords committee has said
There are currently ‘inexplicable’ differences in pay across the civil service that need to be examined as part of the government’s deficit reduction programme, a senior Treasury figure has said.