A landmark scheme to automatically place millions of people into workplace pensions is now under way, in what is hailed as the biggest pensions revolu...
Debt is hardly something new and what it does to a life are not new either. Emerson, as a socially concerned person in 1936, understood it well and expressed in a way that feels powerfully close to us today.
Directors of the country's top companies have built up pension pots worth an average £4.3 million each. The pension arrangements of 351 directors ...
Hundreds of serving and former members of the Royal Navy face having to make repayments after a £1.2m wages blunder. The Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
If the government wants to realise its agenda of extending working lives, it must make working past retirement age a realistic option for people across the labour market. Too many older unemployed are not given the support and training they need to find re-employment - one out of two is long-tem unemployed, higher than for any other age group.
Unpredicted and unannounced Britain now finds itself right in the middle of an extraordinary new baby boom, a fresh bulge-generation that will help shape our country for the rest of the 21st century. Has Britain cheated demographic destiny?
The public sector, in my opinion is the most important of all the job areas in the UK, for they are the people employed to maintain some sense of order and safety amongst all us everyday loons who fart about on a daily basis landing ourselves in all sorts of mishaps.
Talks aimed at resolving a row over pensions which has led to strikes by train drivers ended without agreement on Thursday. Members of the drivers'...
The walkout by prison officers in most jails is unlawful and ministers are considering court action to end the dispute, the Government said today. ...
A fresh strike by public sector workers in their bitter row with the Government over pensions was said to be solidly supported on Thursday as it emerg...
Tens of thousands of workers, ranging from police officers to immigration staff, are to stage protests on Thursday, protesting against government chan...
The Government sparked a fresh clash with unions after pressing ahead with its controversial reforms of public sector pensions ahead of a new strike b...
It's crazy to think that a Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) will provide the revenue to solve the world's ills and that it will be a cost borne only b...
A pensioner remained in a "serious but stable condition" following a crash which killed three members of her family, police said today. A lorry dri...
The government is on a fresh collision course with public sector workers over its controversial pension reforms after more industrial action was calle...
Local councils across the UK have a combined deficit of £54bn in their pension schemes, it has emerged. The assets of all 101 local authority pens...
Britain could face a £800bn pensions shock by 2050 as a result of its ageing population, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned. Analysi...
A pensions shake-up is about to hit employers throughout the UK. Stephanie Hawthorne examines the legal requirements and asks are employers ready to join the revolution?
Hundreds of students suffered as a result of teachers staging a strike on Wednesday, which saw around 6,000 teachers and lecturers marching through ce...
I have to admit ambivalence about yesterday's NUT strike in London. I went to work, not because I disagree with the concept of fighting for my pension, but for the rather more prosaic reason that I belong to another union, who did not choose to strike this time.
'Strikes benefit no-one' said Nick Gibb, the education minister, referring to today's public sector strike. He is wrong. Traditionally when strikes occurred, they made a point.
The government has insisted that the pension deal offered to teachers is "as good as it gets" as thousands of teachers and lecturers prepare to stage ...
One of the world's biggest pension funds is to set up a new base in London in what the Government expects to provide a major boost to investment in Br...
Teachers raised the prospect on Thursday of taking strike action over attempts to shorten holidays and lengthen the school day. The National Union ...
Unions representing millions of workers have lost their Court of Appeal battle against a government decision to change the way public sector pension i...
