The current round of financial ‘City Deals’ between the government and major cities should be boosted to tackle low pay, a joint report by two think-tanks said today.
Unison has urged every councillor in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to end the three-year long government pay freeze that has caused ‘real pain’ to workers.
Plans to introduce a single ‘flat rate’ state pension from April 2017 could leave thousands of public sector workers out of pocket, unions have warned.
The chair of the Commons communities and local government committee has hit back at Tory accusations that its call for a review of councillors’ allowances is a ‘cynical and sleazy’ attempt to boost...
Secondary school heads have cautiously backed plans to extend performance-related pay to all teachers, but warned they might not be practical when school budgets are reducing.
Senior NHS managers enjoyed an average pay rise of 2% in the year to September 2012, outweighing that received by doctors, nurses and ambulance staff, according to figures published today.
The government has ditched plans for local pay in the civil service, NHS and Prison Service, but will consult on giving schools more power to set salaries in line with performance, Chancellor George...
Chancellor George Osborne should use next week’s Autumn Statement to freeze spending on public sector pay, benefits and international aid and ignore calls to extend wealth taxes, the Centre for...
Scotland’s council leaders are ending their two-year staff pay freeze, offering a 1% rise plus a guaranteed minimum ‘living wage’ of £7.50 an hour from next April.
Equal pay claims against Birmingham City Council are set to total at least £757m and will present a major financial challenge, the authority has revealed.
The governance and regulatory systems proposed in the Public Sector Pensions Bill could be ‘extraordinarily complex and onerous’ for even the best run pension schemes, the chief executive of the...
The government has still not approved proposed reforms to the Local Government Pension Scheme after nearly six months of negotiations, trade unions and council employers have revealed.