The Wales Audit Office has today said both Carmarthenshire County Council and Pembrokeshire Council acted unlawfully in allowing senior officers to opt-out of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Government calls for the National Minimum Wage to rise to £7 an hour would improve the public finances through both lower benefit payments and higher taxation income, the Institute for Public Policy...
Reforms to the pension rules for outsourced public sector workers being introduced by the Treasury will lead to more private firms and charities bidding for government contracts, a report has claimed...
London boroughs have agreed a plan to merge £20bn of pension fund assets into a singe investment vehicle in a bid to cut costs and improve investment returns.
More than half of the cost of meeting the pay claim made by local government trade unions would be recouped through higher revenues for the Treasury, a study has found.
The communities and local government select committee has launched an inquiry into pay and rewards for senior council officers, which will examine how remuneration packages are decided.
People born in the 1960s and 1970s are the first post-war generation that will be no better off than their parents, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said today
Much of the focus in debates about low pay has been on younger workers. But many older employees are stuck in low-paid jobs, and making little progress
The public sector employment outlook has deteriorated in the last three months, with employers now unlikely to hire extra staff, a poll by recruiters Manpower has found.
If we’re all in this together, why are pensioners given special treatment? The government should ensure that older workers are no longer exempt from National Insurance Contributions and that pensions...
Automatic pay rises for older doctors are to be phased out and savings re-invested in general practice under changes to the GP contract, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today.
Recent good news on the jobs front should not obscure the fact that real wages have been falling for at least four years. Overall, the wage squeeze has created a lost decade for pay
The law of unintended consequences could undermine efforts to improve incomes via a living wage, or by capping energy prices. Policy makers should take note
The Department for Work and Pensions needs to take ‘immediate steps’ to allow people to save into collective defined contribution pensions, the Royal Society of Arts think-tank said today.
The average Briton is in denial about the burgeoning costs of old age. But then, so are politicians. Radical reforms to the housing and planning systems are needed to avert a pensions and care crisis
Local government trade unions have reiterated their call for all councils to pay staff the Living Wage as the annual uprating of the hourly rate was announced today
The Fire Brigades Union has called on the government to reopen pension talks after it staged a two-hour strike this morning – its third walkout during the ongoing dispute