Civil Service

The Office for National Statistics will spend £8 million hiring temporary staff in a bid to fix problems with its Labour Force Survey (LFS).

At least 10,000 civil service jobs could be axed under government plans to cut costs by 5% across all departments.

The government plans to recruit start-up workers from the tech industry to embed a more innovative culture and help it run more efficiently.

The prime minister has raised the issue of public sector productivity and put pressure on civil servants to become ‘mission-led’.

Judges commended the health department's courageous decision to eliminate reliance on agency staff, significantly reducing costs.

Civil Service recommits to three-day office attendance following reports that ministers were doing little to enforce hybrid working rules.

Recruitment and retention in higher-paid public sector jobs is suffering due to 15-year real-terms pay cut, according to think tank.

We provide details of where and when strikes are happening, and the latest on strike ballots and results.

The government is not enforcing rules that require civil servants to spend three days a week in the office, reports suggest.

National Crime Agency suffering from poor retention and low morale caused by pay stagnation, according to report published today.

The chancellor has confirmed that millions of public sector workers will get a pay rise this year, following the recommendations of independent pay review bodies.

As business secretary between 2010 and 2015, Cable revealed that officials did not consider Horizon issues to be serious enough to bring to his attention.

Civil servants vote in favour of strike, but the union fails to achieve turnout threshold in key departments.

There will be no more standalone civil service EDI jobs outside HR and external spending will require government sign-off.

New measures that will see senior civil servants receiving performance-related pay have been announced by the government.