Dr Vivek Trivedi, the co-chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health service employers and Anita Smith, a teacher at a secondary school in North Leeds.
Within minutes of the government confirming that they’d accepted the recommendations of the pay review bodies, the teaching unions in England had called off their strikes.
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have once again clashed over pay for public sector workers. At Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Corbyn accused the PM of “recklessly exploiting the goodwill of public servants”.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May was being a bit sneaky pretty much blaming the Pay Review Bodies for the one per cent pay recommendations that have come through since the government announced a one per cent pay cap.
Downing Street has insisted there won’t be a change of heart over public sector pay, as more high-profile Conservatives join calls to lift the 1% cap on annual pay rises. Policing Minister Nick Hurd told MPs that paying frontline workers fairly was under “active discussion”. Earlier the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson claimed wages could be…
Gary Gibbon
Is No. 10 letting expectations on public sector pay get out of control? Cabinet ministers are dropping hints all over the place that the cap will go – but how soon can that happen?
More than 1 million public sector workers are on strike, but the government insists their claims of unfair pay are overblown. Do ministers have a point?
More than a million public sector workers strike – but last time, in 2011, the action was more a war of words over the turn-out than one of attrition. It wasn’t like that back in the day…
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are on strike around the country. Take our tour of what the situation looks like across the nation: protests, disruption and a socialist choir. #j10
American billionaire Nick Hanauer tells fellow plutocrats that if they dont pay their employees a living wage, the pitchforks will be imminent.
News that UK house prices are soaring echoes economist Thomas Piketty’s warning that in the west we can now earn more by owning things than by working. Will the social fabric disintegrate as a result?
Inflation has fallen to its lowest level in more than four years – good for households who have seen their pay eroded by rising prices, but the better news is the squeeze on earnings may be over.
Security giant Serco agrees to repay the government £68.5m wrongly charged for electronic tagging of offenders. G4S is referred to the Serious Fraud Office for a second time over another contract.
And would Postman Pat have approved? Channel 4 News looks at the wisdom of selling off Britain’s 500-year old delivery service.
Backlash over MPs pay is expected as the independent authority that sets parliamentary salaries announces a bumper MP wage boost of more than £8,000.