Civil Service

The most senior HR professional in the Civil Service is set to retire, prompting speculation that her replacement could be recruited from outside the service for the first time

Civil service employees with children could have greater access to childcare in school holidays.

For the first time, NHS staff have been appointed to chair pay negotiation committees.

The top job in Whitehall has gone to the most senior civil servant in the Treasury.

The government is on the verge of losing the confidence of its own workforce, according to the Public and Commercial Services Union

The number of civil servants employed by central government has risen by 13% to 565,000 since 1999, The number of civil servants employed by central government has risen by 13% to 565,000 since 1999

The government has introduced a new framework of principles to underpin public sector pay negotiations, including a firm commitment to eliminate the gender gap

Unions representing about 500,000 civil servants are to submit a joint pay claim for the first time.

Thousands of civil servants are destined for remote working if the chancellor of the exchequer's intended cuts to public sector jobs are to be fulfilled. But Nic Paton finds that the idea of packing workers off to set up at home is proving less than popular with government mandarins.

The Civil Service has added seven new names to its list of commissioners.

Senior civil servants could get a better pension than more junior colleagues under a two-tier pensions system being considered by the government, Personnel Today has learned

The government's rsponse to the Gershon review has already started to bite, with 12,500 jobs cut and 7,800 moved out of London

Up to 500 jobs in the Civil Service are being relocated from London and the South East to South Wales.

Members of the British National Party (BNP) and other far-right groups would be banned from working in the civil service, under radical plans being considered by the government.

PCS members join other big public sector unions in vote on industrial action to resist changes to pensions arrangements