MPs have told the watchdog reviewing their pay that they deserve a 32% hike to £86,250, leading to accusations they are living in "cloud cuckoo land"...
Earlier this week, the right-wing thinktank Policy Exchange published a new report calling for regional pay to replace national pay in the public sect...
The government's desire to see more locally-facing pay in the public sector has run into difficulties. Trade unions, MPs and the wider public have raised doubts about the idea -notably, that it would suck public money and demand out of struggling regions.
This Tory-led coalition government, despite promising that austerity was the way out of recession and into growth, has failed to ease the UK's financial woes, yet they persist in their brutal and relentless assault on our public services.
A leading union is to turn up the heat on the government's public sector pay policy by smashing up a giant block of ice in the shape of a pound sign a...
Schools could struggle to recruit staff if government plans to introduce regional pay for public-sector workers goes ahead, teachers are expected to w...
The total cost to the public purse of paying government ministers is £4.5m, the Cabinet Office has said. The coalition government led by David Cam...
Ed Miliband has been accused of "breathtaking naivety" and playing "cheap politics" by the Unison union leader Dave Prentis, after the Labour party sa...
Former home secretary Alan Johnson has launched a furious retaliation against Ed Miliband's union critics, branding them "delusional". The MP backe...
Ed Milband has delivered a short and sharp riposte to the leader of the Unite union, Len MccLuskey, who had criticised the Labour leadership for accep...
Although many of them have yet to realise it, busy as they are with the ongoing discussions on public sector pensions, the big issue for trade unions in 2012 will be the implementation of regional pay and the break-up of the national pay bargaining schemes.
Capping public sector wages at the same level as the Prime Minister's salary is "damaging" and could deter the "best talent", a powerful Commons commi...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The taxpayer's total liability for funding public sector pensions has hit £1.1 trillion, according to new official figures. T...
PRESS ASSOCIATION - The gap in average earnings between employees in the private and public sectors has widened, with state workers paid nearly 8% mor...
