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Ministers want the Civil Service to be ‘more efficient and effective’.

Staff are planning two days of action next week over the sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media

Trade union leaders meet ministers for final talks on employment rights bill before unveiling on Thursday

Tory leadership contender has caused consternation at the party conference after claiming the government was doing ‘too much’ on statutory maternity pay, before backtracking

Statistics show 16 to 24-year-olds out of work at highest level since pandemic, a rise of almost 50% in two years

PM expected to make clear in key Brighton speech that he will not risk economic stability ‘under any circumstances’

The Prime Minister’s prediction yesterday that his Government “was going to have to be unpopular” on account of withdrawing winter fuel payments from all but the poorest pensioners is coming true sooner than he would have wished. The general secretary of Unite, Sharon Graham, and the head of the TUC,…

TUC and Unite leaders express ‘real concerns’ over policy as many Labour MPs expected to abstain in Commons vote

Employees have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, according to new trade union research