Council staff

• Half of council staff considering quitting their job, survey finds

  Half of council workers are thinking of leaving their job for less stressful work elsewhere, according to a new survey by trade union Unison.

  

• Gender pay gap: what next for councils?

  Mark Whitehead finds out why two London councils have signed up to a new scheme to help women climb the career ladder.

  

• A clash of cultures?

  Mark Whitehead considers if the local government workplace has suffered due to councils adopting a more market-friendly approach.

  

• Council to take pay dispute to Supreme Court

  Nottingham City Council is to take a dispute with its staff over incremental pay rises to the Supreme Court.

  

• Report calls for a bespoke workforce deal with the EU

  Only a bespoke workforce deal with the EU would allow the public sector to recruit top-end talent as well as sufficient numbers of skilled workers and lower-skilled staff, according to finance chiefs.

  

• Council's pay freeze is ruled unlawful by Court of Appeal

  Nottingham City Council was wrong to impose a freeze on incremental pay rises, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

  

• Scottish council staff urged to reject ‘unacceptable’ pay offer

  A Scottish trade union has urged its members to reject the offer of a pay increase up to 3%.

  

• More than 2,000 council staff earn over £100,000

  More than 2,300 council employees were paid more than £100,000 in 2016-17, according to the latest ‘town hall rich list’.

  

• Unison accepts 2% pay rise for local government staff

  A two-year pay deal for more than one million local government workers looks likely to go ahead after the biggest of the three unions involved decided to accept it.

  

• Gender pay gap data - treat with caution

  Mark Whitehead explains why the new gender pay gap figures reveal a somewhat more mixed picture of what is actually going on.