Civil Service

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.

A Ministry of Justice job advertisement for prison officers has fallen foul of advertising standards on race discrimination grounds.

Deputy prime minister Dominic Raab has resigned in the wake of allegations that he bullied staff while working as a cabinet minister.

Former business secretary and COP26 president Alok Sharma has dismissed allegations that he consistently bullied civil servants.

The UK’s largest civil service union, PCS, has urged its members to vote for industrial action after the government announced that pay rises would be limited to 4.5% to 5%.

Civil servants in Whitehall took a record 771,433 days of sick leave last year because of stress and other mental...

The civil service's HR function, the chief people officer group, has a budget shortfall equivalent to 100 full-time staff, says union.

Civil servants, members of the PCS union, are to go on strike over pay, pensions and conditions on 28 April.

Passport Office workers will go on strike for five weeks, from 3 April to 5 May in a dispute over...

Unions representing public sector workers have reacted angrily to today’s Spring Budget, with Unite calling it a “budget of betrayal”....

Union leaders have called for civil service pay reform to ensure the government can retain staff through the cost-of-living crisis.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is to be broken up into four new departments, the prime minister says.