Officials advising the Government on public sector pay have called for inflation-busting wage rises in the past to reverse the impact of austerity, it has emerged. At least three members of public ...

UK public sector workers face fresh ... increase would be just enough to keep pay rising faster than prices, with current forecasts pointing to UK inflation of 2.6 per cent in 2025-26, but it ...

A Cabinet minister has said Government proposals to raise pay by 2.8% for millions of public sector workers are just ... which is 0.2% above projected inflation, is too low. The Justice Secretary ...

"Pay growth including bonuses increased by more, but this reflects previous figures being affected by the one-off payments made to some public sector ... See our UK inflation guide and our Is ...

Public sector pay jumped sharply in November as ... The Government is also under pressure to hand out further inflation-busting pay rises in a forthcoming review. The Bank of England said on ...

The Starmer Labour government has announced plans for pay restraint throughout the public sector and 10,000 job cuts ... Following her speech in Parliament, UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves holds ...

It has been the deliberate intention of successive governments to use public-sector pay restraint as a double-edged attack on workers. The first is governments using below-inflation pay settlements to ...

UK ministers have rejected calls from unions to restore public ... 2.8 per cent pay rise would be similar to wage settlements expected in the private sector, and would outpace inflation, on ...

In the UK however, inflationary increases are contractually guaranteed for public sector workers. Their pensions will go up by September’s inflation ... now being used to pay current retirees ...

UK inflation ... strength of the latest inflation figures, coupled with Tuesday’s higher than expected wage growth data, may well put to bed the possibility of a pre-Christmas rate cut from the BoE on ...