Public sector

NHS worker awarded £29,000 by employment tribunal after being assigned Darth Vader personality type in Star Wars-themed Myers-Briggs exercise.

Staff at 10 Reform councils in face ban on working from home after Nigel Farage said he would set up ‘efficiency’ units in each authority.

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of school leaders and head teachers say their mental health has been harmed in the previous 12...

Resident doctors in England have announced dates for a ballot for renewed strikes and industrial action over pay.

NHS Lothian has apologised to staff in its maternity care unit after an investigation uncovered a toxic workplace culture.

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.

Cat Little, the Cabinet Office’s top civil servant, said she wanted the department to be ‘more strategic, specialist, and smaller’.