Workforce

By Martin Ford | 23 April 2025

National Employers have made an offer of a 3.2% pay increase for council employees from 1 April 2...

GMB: Local government workforce cut by 600,000

By William Eichler | 22 April 2025

Local authorities across England and Wales have lost almost 600,000 members of staff since 2012, ...

RECRUITMENT

The benefits of investing in leadership

By Steve Wilson | 17 April 2025

Steve Wilson discusses the state of leadership development within the sector and highlights the n...

RECRUITMENT

Culture eats governance for breakfast

By Rachael Morris | 17 April 2025

Are we just paying lip service to good governance? The culture of an organisation needs to suppor...

PAY

Union announces strike ballot over pay

By Martin Ford | 16 April 2025

Scottish council workers are to be balloted over strike action in response to what a union has de...

REORGANISATION

Change: Maximising the chances of success

By Graeme McDonald | 15 April 2025

Your employees and the culture you create with them will decide if change is a success or failure...

WASTE

Striking Brum bin workers reject pay offer

By William Eichler | 15 April 2025

Refuse collection workers in Birmingham have rejected the city council’s latest pay offer in the ...

INDUSTRIAL ACTION

Military planners sent to Brum amid bin strikes

By William Eichler | 14 April 2025

Military planners have been called in to help tackle the backlog of rubbish in Birmingham that ha...

FINANCE

Scottish councils reject shared service proposal

By Martin Ford | 10 April 2025

Three councils in Scotland have rejected a shared service proposal after concluding it would not ...

WORKFORCE

Thriving, not surviving

By Lorna Wells | 10 April 2025

With a host of changes to the employment landscape imminent, Lorna Wells asseses the impact on r...

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