Public sector pay

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If a Labour chancellor has to start cutting, keep calm. It’s not a betrayal | Phillip Inman
After Macron’s bruising failure to expand spending in France, unions need to realise that Rachel Reeves may have no choice but to dial back

Phillip Inman

11, Jan, 2025 @5:00 PM

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UK politics: Streeting says he ‘knows what it’s like to feel you have to bury a secret’ amid puberty blockers ban – as it happened
The health secretary says the emergency ban on the sale and supply of puberty blockers to under-18s will be made indefinite

Andrew Sparrow

11, Dec, 2024 @5:47 PM

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Union anger over Labour government’s ‘insulting’ 2.8% public sector pay plan
Pay review bodies will make final recommendations on proposed rises for teachers, NHS staff and other workers

Rowena Mason, Denis Campbell and Sally Weale

10, Dec, 2024 @8:56 PM

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Staff at sixth-form colleges in England to strike on Thursday
More than 2,000 members of National Education Union will walk out on two further days next week

Richard Adams Education editor

27, Nov, 2024 @6:36 PM

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UK public sector pay awards to overtake private sector for first time in four years
CIPD report says businesses face higher costs after tax rises in budget as public sector benefits from above-inflation pay rises

Richard Partington Economics correspondent

11, Nov, 2024 @6:01 AM

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Labour conference: Cutting winter fuel payments ‘right decision’, says Reeves, as No 10 says no change to council tax discount for single people – as it happened
Chancellor says £22bn gap in current spending budget and state pension rise meant she had to make decision on means-testing fuel payments

Andrew Sparrow

23, Sep, 2024 @5:20 PM

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Reeves could change fiscal rules to allow more capital spending, say sources
Chancellor tells conference she will ‘look at the value and benefits of investment and not just the costs’

Kiran Stacey and Richard Partington

23, Sep, 2024 @5:20 PM

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Nurses in England reject government’s 5.5% pay award
Royal College of Nursing union says members ‘do not yet feel valued and they are looking for urgent action’

Denis Campbell Health policy editor

23, Sep, 2024 @3:32 PM

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‘We need to hear about hope’: unions greet Keir Starmer TUC speech with mixed emotions
Enthusiasm for public sector pay awards tempered by concern over winter fuel payment cuts and job losses

Heather Stewart

13, Sep, 2024 @1:00 PM

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Keir Starmer faces rebellion as 53 Labour MPs abstain over winter fuel and one votes with Tories – as it happened
Conservative motion to block winter fuel payment cut defeated but 53 Labour MPs abstain and one, Jon Trickett, votes with the Tories

Andrew Sparrow

10, Sep, 2024 @5:36 PM

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Future pay deals will be shaped by tough decisions, Starmer to tell TUC
PM expected to make clear in key Brighton speech that he will not risk economic stability ‘under any circumstances’

Heather Stewart and Pippa Crerar

09, Sep, 2024 @9:30 PM

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Public sector workers need above-inflation pay rises, says TUC chief
Paul Nowak welcomes government’s ‘crucial first step’ on pay, but says more needs to be done after 14 years of wage decline

Pippa Crerar Political editor

04, Sep, 2024 @11:01 PM

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