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”.
Public sector workers need pay rises similar to their private sector counterparts if services are to maintain motivated, experienced staff, the Treasury has said – but without promising new money for...
Nurses will strike in hospitals across most of the UK on 15 and 20 December after the government turned down more talks, but health secretary Steve Barclay has defended the current pay offer.
Government delays to fixing legal problems with its fraught public service pension reforms mean many scheme members have made life-changing decisions while in the dark about their consequences.
The absence of any mention of public sector pay deals in Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement leave disputes in the same position as before, with many public services facing crises and strike action,...
