Civil Service

HR news and analysis, including:

We talk to Lord McKenzie about the government’s mental health employment strategy
And we discuss...

Union success in a judicial review of government plans to scale back the civil service compensation scheme (CSCS) could delay...

Whitehall unions will seek legal action against the government’s decision to cut back civil service compensation schemes, and could ballot...

Ex-civil servants who return to work in the Civil Service after receiving a severance payment will have to pay the...

The Conservatives claim they would win the hearts and minds of civil servants to create “more with less” in the...

HR big-hitters from the public and private sector look set to join the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development as...

Home secretary Alan Johnson has defended the £47m bonus bill for civil servants at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), claiming...

The Civil Service is to launch a new HR business partner development programme to help functions deal with looming Whitehall...

A leadership training programme designed to support black and minority ethnic civil servants has been launched. The ‘Growing Talent’ scheme...

The Civil Service will scrap its mandatory retirement age for all employees from April 2010.Last year Cabinet Office chief Gus...

Prime minister Gordon Brown addressed the TUC annual congress today, on a range of employment issues. Here is a round...

Plans to cut generous redundancy payments for Britain’s 500,000 civil servants could trigger a legal challenge by public sector unions,...

HR news and analysis including:

Younger workers more likely to be off sick with swine flu

Union reactions to proposed...

The PCS union’s National Executive Committee will meet today to thrash out its response to the government’s “disgraceful” proposed civil...

Plans to slash thousands of pounds of compensation paid to civil servants being made redundant have been blasted by unions...