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Public Service Pay & Benefits

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UK civil servants face real terms pay cut as unions slam government’s ‘utter contempt’ for officials

UK civil service trade unions have reacted angrily to the UK government’s announcement that pay for officials will rise at an average of 2% for the coming year – and […]

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OPM grants US federal officials paid leave to vote in elections

The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has given federal employees the right to take leave to vote in federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial elections. Agency workers may take […]

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Biden pledges to ‘address use of salary history’ in setting federal government pay rates

President Joe Biden has pledged to tackle the use of previous pay rates for setting salaries for federal government jobs – but has stopped short of saying the practice will […]

Canadian government races to collect Phoenix overpayments as deadline looms

Canada’s federal government is racing to recoup an estimated C$552m (US$433m) in overpayments made to employees as a result of the botched Phoenix pay system before they must be written […]

Biden promises feds a 2.7% pay rise next year

Plans to increase the pay of US federal civilian employees by an average of 2.7% in 2022 have been formally presented to Congress by President Joe Biden. In a letter […]

UK commission report calls for fewer, better-paid civil servants

Senior UK civil servants should have to show delivery experience outside Whitehall and demonstrate their skills in a set of key fields, according to a new report by an influential […]

Capability-based pay to be introduced under UK civil service reform plans

All senior appointments to the UK civil service will be open to public competition and capability-based pay will be introduced, under the government’s new reform programme announced today. Alongside transforming […]

Diversity grows sharply among UK senior officials

The UK civil service has seen a sharp rise in the diversity of its senior civil servants over the last year, with rapid growth in the proportion of ethnic minority […]

UK abandons redundancy cap following legal challenges

The UK government has repealed new regulations that limited exit payments for departing public sector staff to £95,000 (US$132,000), after its policy was challenged in the courts by unions and […]

Role reversal: Biden rolls back Trump’s civil service directives

US President Joe Biden has used his first days in office to reset relations with federal professionals, reversing a number of executive orders issued by his predecessor Donald Trump that […]