Local government staff will have to pay on average an extra 1.5 percentage points of their pay towards their pensions under changes being proposed by the Department for Communities and Local...
Local government staff and civil servants will be barred from working full time for trade unions while taking a salary for their job, the government has announced.
November 30 marks the next stage in the industrial dispute over public sector pensions reform and is likely to be on a scale 'unprecedented for a generation or more'. Can anything be done to avert...
Planned increases in council workers' pension contributions could be avoided, the umbrella body of councils in England and Wales has told minsters today.
The three biggest unions in the UK have announced plans for a co-ordinated round of industrial action in November against the government’s public sector pension changes.
Trades Union Congress general secretary Brendan Barber has admitted that he cannot predict whether it will be possible for the unions to strike a deal with the government on changes to public sector...
The FDA and Prospect unions are to ballot on industrial action this autumn if the government does not rescind the proposed increase in civil servants’ pension contributions from April 2012.
Health trade unions have set up a new campaign group that will prepare for possible strike action in the NHS over the government’s planned changes to public sector pensions.
Almost two-thirds of public sector workers plan to stay in their current jobs and few have any intention of moving to the private sector, according to a survey by recruitment consultancy Badenoch...
The chief executive of one of the biggest local government pension schemes has told Public Finance that he hopes to avoid passing the planned increase in contributions on to employees in full.
The Dilnot report is the latest attempt to find a solution to the social care funding crisis. To avoid the fate of its predecessors, it has erred on the side of compromise. But in doing so it has...
Civil servants, health workers and teachers face a rise in pension contributions of up to 2.4% next April and up to 6% by 2014/15, the government announced today.
Labour has accused the Scottish Government of failing to live up to a promise to pay all its employees at least the ‘Living Wage’, the minimum income campaigners say is needed for a decent quality of...
