Firefighters have voted to strike over the government’s proposed pension reforms that the Fire Brigades Union has warned could lead to thousands losing their jobs when a change in retirement age is...
The majority of people who are currently entitled to receive the state second pension will lose out when the government abolishes the scheme, a report by the Trades Union Congress has warned.
More people could choose to start receiving their state pension as soon as they are eligible, following planned changes to deferment payments, consultancy Hymans Robertson has warned.
As A-level students contemplate their results, better information is needed on the potential benefits of a university education to both the individual and the economy
Take home pay in the public sector declined in the three months to the end of July, the fourth consecutive period of decline, according to a survey of earnings.
Charity chief executives have been criticised for ‘fat-cat’ salaries in an age of austerity. But it’s down to trustees – not the Charity Commission – to determine...
Public and voluntary sector employers are more likely to use zero hours contracts than those in the private sector, according to research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Retained firefighters who were not eligible to join a public sector pension scheme until 2006 are to be allowed to ‘purchase’ contributions for extra years, fire minister Brandon Lewis has announced.
The current system of pension tax reliefs benefits higher earners disproportionately, a report examining the current system by the Pensions Policy Institute has found
Government measures intended to help people save for their retirement are being managed ineffectively and could lead to higher costs for taxpayers in the future, the National Audit Office has found.
Pressure on public sector budgets has led to a rise in zero-hours contracts, particularly in the care sector. The biggest losers are vulnerable service-users and staff on poor pay and insecure hours...
Public sector pay rises are to be limited to an average of 1% in 2015/16, the chancellor confirmed today as he set out plans for that year in his Spending Review.
Pay deals for top civil servants are becoming so ‘financially unattractive’ that it is increasingly difficult to retain talented people in Whitehall, the National Audit Office warned today.
Public sector employment in the UK continues to decline, falling by 22,000 to 5.7 million over the first three months of the year, official figures show.
The Treasury is clamping down on annually managed expenditure to cut the welfare bill. A far better strategy, argues James Lloyd, would be to split the DWP into two, with a ministry for working-age...
The two separate National Insurance rates paid by self-employed people act as an ‘open invitation’ for tax avoidance and should be scrapped, the CentreForum think-tank said today.
Around 14,000 public sector staff in Scotland received redundancy or early retirement payments between 2010 and 2012 at an initial cost of £561m, an Audit Scotland report revealed today.
Local government minister Brandon Lewis has set out plans to undertake a ‘root-and-branch review’ of the Local Government Pension Scheme’s investment regulations. The possibility of merging schemes...