All news on the topic: Public sector workers

Labour's Angela Rayner told Penny Mordaunt 'you can tell as many lies as you want' as they came to blows over the armed forces, economy and NHS at BBC Election Debate

If no-one repairs a country for 14 years the problems just keep getting worse, says Fleet Street Fox. Keir Starmer's to-do list is the stuff of nightmares

A study by the TUC found that teachers topped a list of those putting in the most unpaid overtime at more than four hours a week, costing them an estimated £15,000 in lost earnings on average

Unison said a survey of 44,000 women working in the public sector found employers were being "inconsistent, rigid and unimaginative" when dealing with requests from staff

Minimum service levels, restricting rights to strike, will be introduced for ambulance, rail and Border Force staff, but unions have claimed they are 'unworkable'

Benefit is due to rise by 8.5% in April under triple lock pledge, which is supposed to mean it increases in line with whichever is highest out of wage growth, inflation or 2.5%

Office for National Statistics data shows average wages rose at an annual rate of 7.8% between June and August - but, for many workers, pay still lags behind inflation

Boosting NHS staffing to the required levels would require a return to annual Government funding rises of 3.6% - not seen for more than a decade, say the Institute for Fiscal Studies

An estimated 3.9 million working days have been lost to industrial action in the past year - more than at any point since the 1980s, according to research by the Resolution Foundation think tank

Ministers have consistently said large pay rises for public sector staff would make it more difficult to bring inflation down but a report now says they would not be inflationary

The Prime Minister has approved salary uplifts for millions of public sector workers after accepting recommendations from pay review bodies’ - but do you think it's enough to end industrial action?

Teachers, doctors and nurses deserved to be paid more but they also deserve to work in schools that are not crumbling, hospitals that are not overcrowded, and wards with enough beds and scanners

Millions of police, NHS workers, police and teachers will get their pay rises, but Rishi Sunak is accused of taking a "wrecking ball" to public services and urged to "come clean" over what he'll cut

The Prime Minister indicated he could overrule proposals from independent Pay Review Bodies into how much of a wage hike public sector workers should receive

Regularly disrupting your body clock can put you at risk of depression and diabetes. But Dr Miriam Stoppard shares exciting research coming from Oxford University that shows a genetic propensity to 'eveningness' reduces sleep penalties by up to a third

A three-month trial at South Cambridgeshire District found its performance was “broadly maintained” and was “overwhelmingly positive” for the health and well-being of staff

Politicians from 18 countries including Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Spain condemned the Tory government's attack on the right to strike

Lisa Nandy has attacked government ministers who smeared workers demanding a fair wage increase as 'unpatriotic', saying that it is not unpatriotic to demand a fair day's pay for an honest day's work

The Prime Minster is very rich but seems incapable of basic sums, says Fleet Street Fox. If he wants maths lessons for all, let's start with him

'No fault' section 21 evictions soared from 792 to 1,942 between the last three months of 2021 and the same period last year, according to Office for National Statistics figures

Members of the National Education Union attended the Save Our Schools demo, marching from Speakers’ Corner to Trafalgar Square at start of two-day walkout

In an article for the Mirror, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak warned that years of underfunding under the Tories has left our public services on their knees and there is no plan to get pay rising

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the UK's finances were in slightly better shape - but tax hikes or spending cuts could be needed to meet union demands for pay rises in line with inflation

MPs will be given a £2,440 salary boost from April 1, amid a wave of strikes by nurses, railway workers, teachers and others over pay disputes - but what did Mirror readers think?

A study by the Learning and Work Institute sheds light on which employees left their roles during the Covid-19 pandemic - and the reasons behind them quitting