Civil Service

We provide details of where and when strikes are happening, as the UK battles with the ongoing period of industrial unrest.

Civil service headcout is capped with immediate effect and spending on equality, diversion and inclusion is to be reviewed.

The civil service is to employ 2,500 new tech recruits via apprenticeships and early careers programmes by June 2025.

Recruitment drives by the UK Border Force has led to prisons near ports and airports finding it difficult to retain staff, a Prison Service has reported.

Members of the TUC are expected to work with unions to produce a model template for public sector pay review bodies.

Civil servant Christine Rodgers was described as "manipulative" and "hypersensitive" at a Leeds tribunal.

Unions have warned workers' health is at risk, as government buildings experience sewage leaks, legionella and insect infestations.

Now that the shortlists for each category have been revealed, we look at the finalists in the Excellence in Public Service HR category.

The leaders of two unions have urged the government to reform the civil service's 'broken' pay structure.

Toxic male cultures and sexual misconduct are still being tolerated by leaders at the National Crime Agency, investigation finds.

Executive committees and representatives of three trade unions representing workers in the civil service are considering a new pay offer...

The DWP has only just introduced a mechanism to incorporate regular overtime into holiday pay, several years after a landmark judgment.

The head of the civil service's largest union has accused Whitehall of 'racist institutional bias' in a letter.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal says a driving examiner who resigned over Covid health fears can have his dismissal claim reheard.

Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union, which represents Civil Service workers, has announced his retirement.