Public sector

Hundreds of workers at the energy regulator Ofgem are being balloted over strike action in a dispute over pay and jobs.

The talks represent Acas’s first major involvement in attempts to end the full strike since it started, on 11 March.

Public sector workers including teachers and nurses could be in line for a pay rise of up to 4% in the next financial year.

The government will table an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that means firearms officers who go to trial are granted anonymity.

Police chiefs will be able to automatically dismiss officers who fail background screening under new government measures.

Psychiatrists have called on the government to put in place better mental health support for NHS frontline staff.
The call...

The government is expanding a scheme to enable people to access healthcare in the community or closer to their homes...

Teachers in England could launch strike action if the government does not offer a higher pay rise for the next...

Parliament is to be recalled to debate an emergency law to save British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe from imminent closure.

West Yorkshire Police have pushed back against claims based on evidence from a whistleblower that it discriminated against white British-born applicants.

Rob Moss examines eight potential new equality laws, including race and disability equal pay rules and dual discrimination claims.

A doctor who provided services to two hospitals via a personal services company has been deemed an employee for tax purposes after a long-running legal battle.

Healthcare staff could go door-to-door within communities to tackle sickness, ill-health worklessness and absence from work, as part of the...

Dozens of quangos could be shut down in a bid to run Whitehall more efficiently, it has been reported.

Employment tribunal finds part-time lecturer at London-based Capital City College (CCC) faced less favourable treatment.