Local authorities

Does the four-day week grant employees the flexibility and skills development opportunities they desire? Or is it too rigid?

AuditOne's organisational development work secured it the Excellence in Public Service HR award at the 2023 Personnel Today Awards.

Staff at a waste services depot brought in illegal weapons to show other workers, an inquiry was told.

Local governments have reached an agreement with unions over their 2023/24 pay deal, which will be backdated to 1 April.

The government has issued guidance urging councils not to implement four-day working weeks.

Kingston council criticised by employment tribunal for deadnaming a trans employee and for failing to update its policies.

Birmingham City Council has reached an agreement with unions on a process for job evaluation.

Skills for Care says the adult social care sector needs a workforce strategy to tackle recruitment and retention needs.

Birmingham City Council is one of a number of councils teetering on 'bankruptcy', but what does that mean for HR and resourcing in local authorities?

Leeds City Council has a huge variety of HR and payroll requirements with different pensions, pay cycles and contracts to account for

South Cambridgeshire District Council will continue its trial of a four-day work week, expanding it to bin collection workers.

GMB is the largest staff union at Birmingham City Council, which this week declared itself effectively bankrupt.

A group of academics at Cambridge University have been accused of editing evidence of the impact of a council’s four-day working week trial.

Birmingham City Council has declared itself effectively bankrupt after revealing it does not have the funds to settle equal pay claims.

A union body has urged the government to devise a social care and childcare workforce strategy to improve pay, conditions and progression.