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FDA Assistant General Secretary Lucille Thirlby on why the FDA is proud to be an accredited Living Wage employer and why she’d encourage other employers to do the same.

Representatives from the FDA, the Law Society and the Bar Council have called for increased investment in the criminal justice system at a round table event to mark Justice Week 2018.

Dave Penman updates members on the result of our application for Judicial Review of the civil service pay guidance consultation and the "shambles" of this year’s pay round.

"While we welcome the in-year budget increase, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance must ensure this comes as part of a sustained, long-term commitment to adequately resource the COPFS," says FDA President Fiona Eadie.

“While we welcome the in-year budget increase, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf must ensure this comes as part of a sustained, long-term commitment to adequately resource the COPFS and isn’t simply a flash in the pan," says FDA President Fiona Eadie.

The FDA, PCS and Prospect have succeeded in getting courts to give urgent consideration to their challenge to the Treasury’s pay guidance for departments that is set to award civil servants the lowest pay increase of all public sector employees.

FDA members in the MOJ have voted against a pay deal that could see individuals face worse working conditions and real-term pay cuts.

The FDA has called on David Lidington to champion fair and equal pay in Whitehall following the release of official statistics revealing that the gender pay gap for senior civil servants widened in the year to March 2018.

The FDA, Prospect and PCS - unions representing more than 200,000 civil servants - have today jointly launched legal proceedings, seeking Judicial Review of the Government’s consultation over the 2018 civil service pay guidance.

FDA Vice President Tony Wallace asks, if the acting Cabinet Secretary thinks all civil servants are brilliant, then why have they not been rewarded for it like their public sector colleagues?

Alongside PCS and Prospect, the FDA has warned the Minister for the Cabinet Office to withdraw the civil service pay guidance or face legal action.

The FDA has, alongside PCS and Prospect, instructed our lawyers to write to the Minister for the Cabinet Office David Lidington to request that the Government withdraws the civil service pay guidance and undertakes a process of appropriate consultation.

Following their meeting with David Lidington, Minister for the Cabinet Office, the General Secretaries of PCS, FDA and Prospect have issued a joint statement on civil service pay for 2018/19.

FDA General Secretary Dave Penman updates members on pay for 2018 and the publication on Monday of the Treasury remit guidance.

FDA Assistant General Secretary Lucille Thirlby responds to the release of the civil service pay guidance.

With the pay cap finally being lifted, the FDA will be pressing ministers to ensure civil servants don’t get left behind, says General Secretary Dave Penman.

The latest FDA survey of members in the senior civil service gives a decisive thumbs-down to the pay system. Tommy Newell looks at the results and explains how they shaped the union’s evidence to the pay review body.

Responding to the publication of the government’s evidence to the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB), FDA Assistant General Secretary Naomi Cooke said: “While the government is adept at listing the many problems that exist in the current Senior Civil Service (SCS) pay structures...

Vicky Johnson, President of the Association of Revenue and Customs (ARC), responds to a Public Accounts Committee report on HMRC.

When Rupert McNeil left the private sector to lead civil service HR two years ago, he hadn’t banked on Brexit. But he’s determined that it won’t halt progress on skills, performance management, industrial relations and diversity. Matt Ross meets him.