A 10% pay rise for council staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is affordable and would benefit the government through savings on benefits and increased tax revenues, unions have said.
A £30bn local government pension fund has threatened to halt investment in companies that fail to recognise the financial risks caused by climate change.
Kent County Council will have to wait a further 10 days before it receives its first payment from the stricken Woodford Equity Income Fund, it has been announced.
Companies benefiting from big UK government contracts operating in tax havens, public sector consulting bill tops £1.4bn and young and women suffer the most from unemployment in...
Global governments must reform their pension systems to accommodate for a growing number of workers that are self-employed or who are in temporary and part time work, the OECD has said.
The NHS will cover doctors’ pension tax bills to prevent a winter staffing crisis amid warnings from the sector that workforce shortages are putting patient safety at risk.
More than two-thirds of consultant surgeons have cut their NHS working hours to avoid paying excessive levels of tax on their pensions, polling has found.
The government is facing calls to halt its ‘loan charge’ policy introduced to reclaim about £3.2bn of avoided tax, after it was linked to seven suicides.
Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge on Westminster’s decision to raise the state pension age for women from 60 to 65, which could have cost the government £215bn.
Handing Local Government Pension Scheme investments to ‘passive fund’ managers would spark pushback from the scheme’s stakeholders, CIPFA’s pensions advisor has told PF.
Increased flexibilities to NHS pensions will not be enough to stop senior doctors facing high tax bills on their pensions, a medical umbrella group has suggested.