Faisal Islam
Pensions: what you are not being told
Pensions: the state ‘retirement revolution’ and the public sector tax raid – what you are not being told about the Pensions Green Paper, from Faisal Islam.
Search results for ‘Public Sector’
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Pensions strike impact minimal, says Government
Tens of thousands of public sector workers failed to turn up for work in one of the UK’s biggest instances of nationwide industrial action of recent times.
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Pensions strikes prompt war of words
Thousands of public sector workers are on strike over a pensions dispute. But as unions hail the “best-supported strike” ever, the Government is playing down its impact.
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Warning of travel delays during pension strike
Travellers are warned of delays at ports and airports on Thursday as immigration staff join a public sector strike. A union leader tells Channel 4 News the fight for pensions is worth the disruption.
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Cameron to urge workers to call off strike
The Prime Minister David Cameron is set to add his voice to calls for public sector workers to cancel this week’s mass strike over pensions.
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Gove warning to teachers ahead of walkout
As public sector workers prepare for walkouts across the country on 30 June, Education Secretary Michael Gove warns that teachers risk losing public respect if they engage in “militancy”.
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Ed Balls warns unions of trap over pension strikes
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has urged trade unions not to fall into the Government’s “trap” of calling mass strikes in opposition to planned public sector pension reforms.
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Mass strikes loom after civil service union vote
As hundreds of thousands of public sector workers prepare to strike on 30 June, a union leader and a Government minister clash over the strikes live on Channel 4 News.
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Cable: strikes could lead to Government clampdown
The Business Secretary Vince Cable tells unions that if public sector strike action threatens the economy, the Government will look at changing strike laws.
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Hutton calls for fair pay cap on bosses’ earnings
Top executives in the public sector should not be paid more than twenty times the salary of their organisation’s lowest paid staff, a review of fair pay among public servants has recommended.
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Cuts and VAT rise leave UK economy ‘uncertain’
The budgetary watchdog sees an “uncertain” future for the UK economy – but predicts public sector job losses will be much lower than forecast. Chancellor George Osborne says “Britain is on the mend”.
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Faisal Islam
Ireland debt: spelling out the spending cuts ahead
Some details of the spending cuts are emerging. A 10 per cent cut in social welfare payments, a €1 cut to the minimum wage, 28,000 public sector job cuts have all been concretely reported here in Dublin.
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Job prospects in the age of austerity
FactCheck analyses a letter to the Daily Telegraph, signed by 35 senior businessmen, that says “the private sector should be more than capable of generating additional jobs to replace those lost in the public sector”.
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Efficiency and Austerity
FactCheck analyses Sir Philip Green’s report for the government on public sector procurement – and finds that Sir Philip isn’t the first person to carry out this sort of inquiry.
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FactCheck: pensions timebomb?
FactCheck analyses Lord Hutton’s report on the affordability of public sector pensions
