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- Dave Penman responds to Alex Salmond report
- Nicola Sturgeon says Salmond inquiry 'must be fair to all'
- Bercow under pressure as Commons authorities consider bullying report response
- ‘Blind prejudice’: FDA boss attacks MPs critical of civil service bonuses
- Civil service is near breaking point, union warns
- Civil service unions back Scottish Government perm sec’s handling of Salmond allegations
- ‘Swearing and mocking colleagues seemed unremarkable’: HMRC workplace abuse revealed
- Government wants SCS pay award to address recruitment problems
- Fury as Treasury pauses Civil Service Pension Scheme valuation
- UK wants to hire business leaders as ambassadors
- Commons bullying report accepted by commission
- Dave Penman: The public trusts civil servants in testing times
- Government Legal Department staffers get overtime pay boost
- Scottish Government sets out split pay plan for civil servants
- Civil servants reveal health problems caused by high workloads
- Botched handling of Alex Salmond probe 'will stop harassment victims speaking out'
- Dave Penman reviews civil service chiefs’ morning of herding the Alpacas
- Dave Penman: impartiality and integrity are under attack - conspiracy theorists take note
- Dave Penman of FDA asks if UK civil servants are prepared for Brexit
- Dave Penman of FDA called for the process of finalising the new code of conduct for MPs to be delayed while concerns were properly addressed.
- Dave Penman on the Windrush scandal
- David Lidington called on to champion civil service equal pay as SCS gender gap widens
- Britain's Foreign Aid office and the Department for Exiting the EU could be scrapped or merged to free up cash for front-line services
- MPs and unions condemn death threats against HMRC chief
- FDA General Secretary Dave Penman defends the impartiality of the civil service
- The FDA: Urgent action needed on Dame Laura Cox report
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- FDA urges Theresa May to protect the UK civil service from accusations
- Sturgeon under fire for discussing harassment claims with Salmond
- It Shouldn’t Take Public Airing Of Ruined Lives To Shame MPs Into Acting On Harassment
- Judicial review of civil service pay guidance to be fast-tracked
- FDA wins pay rises for CPS staff
- Ministers, not Home Office officials, have created the Windrush scandal
- MPs' anti-bullying rules will cover Speaker, Leadsom suggests
- New Commons system ignores historic sex claims against MPs
- By overturning the suspension of Anthony Lester, the Lords has discouraged staff from speaking out
- Parliament’s new anti‑bullying policy is a whitewash
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- Parliament's new antibullying policy is a whitewash writes Amy Leversidge
- Penman talks to BBC about Brexit resourcing
- Union bosses slam Westminster sex abuse complaints procedure for excluding historical allegations
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- Fresh Brexit row as Tory MPs accuse Theresa May of breaking promise to shake up negotiating team
- Reporting on senior civil servants' salary demonstrates prejudice and ignorance
- Salmond’s actions are damaging the Scots government
- Cabinet Office and MHCLG top staff turnover league table
- The Commons must wake up: The time for deference, acquiescence and silence is over
- Civil service unions start legal case after government fails to consult on pay
- The FDA, Prospect, and the Public and Commercial Services PCS unions are seeking a judicial review over the government’s failure to consult on pay
- Alex Salmond accused of 'personal vendetta' against Leslie Evans after calling for top civil servant to quit
- Westminster abuse scandal: Watchdog 'must have more powers' to investigate MPs accused of bullying and harassment
- Penman responds to Jeremy Hunt's businessman ambassador proposal
- Nicola Sturgeon apologises after flaw found in Alex Salmond investigation
- Quit day job and plan for no‑deal, thousands of civil servants told
- Salmond’s drama must not distract from proper justice
- UK civil service threatened by ‘ideological evangelists’ warns union chief
- Civil Servants, Collective Voice and Brexit Abuse w/Amy Leversidge
- Victoria Taylor says the Government needs to be held accountable in a letter to the Telegraph
- Watch FDA General Secretary Dave Penman on BBC Newsnight on bullying complaints
- Whitehall must start paying civil servants for all the overtime
- Women into Leadership London 2018: wear your red shoelaces
- ADC 2017: Britain needs a strong civil service
- Dame Alix Kilroy: FDA's first female president
- All in the mind
- Westminster bullying and harassment scandal: One year on
- BAME into Leadership: "Get to know 'the game' and its rules"
- Better data for a better Brexit
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- We’re not immune from prejudice – yet
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- Standard Committee Response: MPs may "kick Dame Laura's recommendations into the long grass"
- Annual Delegate Conference 2018: Civil service values are not for sale
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- Temporary departmental move? Check your payroll
- Brexit Minister forced to apologise for undermining civil service
- Budget fails to back public servants over Brexit challenge, says FDA
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- Civil service to track careers of “under-represented” staff
- Compensation Scheme changes “a backwards step”
- Ensure COPFS budget increase isn’t simply ‘a flash in the pan’, FDA urges Scottish Government
- FDA wins up to 8% pay increases for CPS members
- FDA member named one of the most influential LGBT+ people in Wales
- The FDA calls for urgent action on the Dame Laura Cox report
- "Until Parliament acts, the House of Commons will continue to be as fragile as a House of Cards": the FDA backs Dame Laura Cox report recommendations
- Penman: Francois "seeks to undermine impartial civil service"
- Disability History Month: How to increase disabled people's rights in the UK
- DWP Branch AGM celebrates 100 years of the FDA
- Equal Pay Day 2018: The civil service is falling short
- 84% of fast streamers "unhappy with current level of pay"
- House Commission must “stop dragging their feet” on sexual harassment policy
- The FDA wins overtime for Government Legal Department
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- FDA challenges Gove for peddling working hours “myths”
- FDA condemns Salmond’s “continual targeting” of Leslie Evans
- FDA slams Alex Salmond’s “nasty, vindictive and deliberate” attacks on Scottish Government Permanent Secretary
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- FDA President joins Guardian public leaders board
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- FDA slams “cowardly” attacks on civil servants
- FDA teams up with cross-Government race networks to invest in BME leaders
- FDA tells Scottish Parliament that prosecution service faces ‘reliance on goodwill’
- FDA to MPs: Don’t “expect the impossible” on Brexit
- FDA warns Scottish Government pay policy could create barriers to recruitment
- FDA welcomes important, if overdue, House of Commons Commission decision
- FDA welcomes the National Audit Office report on Ofsted
- Fight for fair pay continues after Budget let down
- Gender pay gap data "no early Christmas gift"
- Government’s approach to pay an insult to members
- Government misses ‘yet another opportunity to help close the tax gap’, says HMRC union
- Government risks a shootout on civil service pay: Penman in CSW
- Government should commit to pay settled status fee for EU civil servants
- House of Commons bullying and harassment: FDA's response
- House of Commons bullying: Penman tells Newsnight ‘MPs cannot be trusted to be arbiters of their own conduct’
- FDA helps improve House of Commons staff's workplace
- Institute for Government: Is Whitehall's workforce model broken?
- If the Government wants a world class service it must offer world class resourcing
- “Ill-informed” civil service attacks must stop, says FDA
- #MeToo, menopause and flexible working: future topics for the FDA Women's Network
- Have a day job helping women and girls? Talk to the FDA
- Jeremy Heywood: "The pre-eminent public servant of his age"
- Justice Week 2018: Calls for increased funding to maintain public faith in the justice system
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- Legal action on civil service pay
- Leversidge in the House: Parliament must act now on bullying and harassment
- Invitation: Take part in our LGBT Working Group meeting
- Maude “undermining legacy” with Whitehall attacks
- Melanie Dawes set to speak at FDA annual conference
- MPs to probe Whitehall’s Brexit capability
- C2 Test
- NHS managers plan more active and engaged union
- Patel’s allies “peddling myths” on civil service pay, says FDA
- Pay 2018: A message from the General Secretary
- Pay 2018: Joint statement from the FDA, PCS and Prospect
- Pay 2018: Why we have issued legal proceedings
- Pay talks delayed as FDA calls for major review of SCS pay
- A century of fighting for civil servants: Penman in CSW
- Penman in CSW: Civil service chiefs’ morning of herding the Alpacas
- Penman raises concerns over Brexit delivery resourcing
- Plans to merge Government departments “kindergarten economics”
- Plan to appoint business leaders as ambassadors “risks undermining the UK’s influence”
- FDA opposes Treasury halting public sector pension scheme valuations
- The public trusts civil servants in testing times: Penman in CSW
- We can’t allow justice to become devalued
- Review body calls for a “full overhaul” of SCS pay
- Unions and Scottish Government cosign Fair Work agreement
- SCS pay systems creak at seams while Government works at a snail’s pace, says FDA
- Survey flags “real concern” over workplace harassment and bullying
- Surveys flag concern over pay and workloads
- Suspending open and fair competition for Brexit is ‘a worrying development', says FDA
- Tribunal fees scrapped in landmark court ruling
- TUC Congress backs the FDA’s call to tackle harassment in the workplace
- TUC Congress: FDA raises issues of Brexit and wellbeing
- Unions back FDA call for new civil service settlement
- Up to 5,000 extra HMRC staff needed to cope with Brexit
- Westminster bullying probe must not duck past cases, says FDA
- Women into Leadership London 2018: Wear your red shoelaces
- Working Hours Survey reveals the “false economy” of unsustainable workloads
- Alex Salmond investigation: FDA response
- Anonymous briefings against civil servants a sign of political cowardice, says FDA
- Article 50: Government must act now to prepare civil service for Brexit, says FDA
- A successful Brexit needs more than strong leadership - it needs a strong civil service, says FDA union
- Brexit Minister has failed to challenge "half-baked" civil service myths, says FDA
- Brexit minister's comments undermine government and insult civil servants, says FDA
- Budget fails to back public servants and seeks to deliver Brexit on the cheap, says FDA
- Chancellor “refusing to face up to reality” over civil service pay, says FDA
- Civil servants are used to impartiality - but referendum promises need proper resources, says FDA
- Civil servants being "badly let down" on pay, new figures show
- Civil Service Compensation Scheme plans "a major backwards step" - FDA union
- Civil service must have the tools for the job as Article 50 looms, says FDA
- Civil Service's new diversity plan is welcome - but there's more to do
- Civil service turnover: Without fundamental reform, Government “will only repeat mistakes of the past”
- Civil service unions jointly issue legal proceedings over pay
- The FDA calls for a meaningful pay rise as Crown prosecutors face 20% real terms pay cut
- Ensure COPFS budget increase isn’t simply a “flash in the pan”, FDA urges Justice Secretary
- Fawcett Society's Sexual Harassment in Parliament report: FDA response
- Standards Committee response: FDA raises concerns MPs may "kick Dame Laura's recommendations into the long grass"
- The FDA responds to ERG Vice Chairman Mark Francois's attack on civil servants
- FDA: Senior Civil Service pay systems creak at the seams while Government works at a snail’s pace
- FDA tells ministers to put their money where their mouth is over public sector pay
- FDA urges Chancellor to act now on civil service pay or risk undermining vital public services
- FDA welcome House of Commons Commission's "important, if overdue" decision
- FDA welcomes fresh call for a Spending Review - and says now is the time to tackle uncompetitive public sector pay
- FDA welcomes “overdue” lifting of 1% pay cap in Scotland
- Civil service has a "long way to go" to close gender pay gap, says FDA union
- Government must revise spending plans to ensure the civil service is fully equipped to deliver a successful Brexit, says FDA
- Government must take “concrete action” to end public sector pay cap, says FDA union
- Government must urgently offer clarity on Brexit to ensure UK border security, says FDA
- FDA: It is absurd that Government secrecy should prevent civil servants doing their jobs
- Government wilfully ignores calls to reform civil service pay, says FDA
- House of Commons must not water down recommendations of harassment inquiry, FDA warns
- House of Commons harassment inquiry: independent process needed for all, not just for complaints against Speaker, says FDA
- House of Commons harassment: Leadsom must pause introduction of “flawed” new policy, FDA warns
- House of Commons in need of radical reform to protect staff from bullying and harassment, says FDA
- House of Commons inquiry risks giving MPs accused of harassment ‘clean slate’, FDA warns
- In politically uncertain times, the UK relies on its permanent civil service to ensure stability, says FDA union
- Invest in the civil service to deliver successful Brexit and domestic reform, says FDA
- Lack of investment in civil servants preparing for Brexit “beggars belief”, says FDA
- Ministerial Code tinkering not enough to protect staff from harassment and bullying, FDA union says
- Ministers’ allies are peddling myths on Senior Civil Service pay, says FDA union
- Ministers cannot ignore growing calls to get real about civil service capacity, says FDA
- New harassment inquiry must not delay implementation of Dame Laura Cox’s recommendations, says FDA
- New Westminster bullying probe must not ignore past cases, says FDA union
- NICS sickness absence levels should be a wake up call, says FDA union
- Now is the time to change the Government’s approach to public sector pay, says FDA
- PACAC report adds to mounting evidence that Britain needs a strong civil service, says FDA union
- Parties must not flunk first test on Westminster bullying claims, says FDA union
- Pay cap announcement will satisfy no one, says FDA union
- Press releases
- FDA opposes Treasury halting public sector pension scheme valuations
- Public will “bear the consequences” if cuts to prosecution service continue, FDA warns
- Report attacking DWP pay shows “blatant disregard for the facts”, says FDA union
- Scottish Budget: New public sector pay policy could hit morale, FDA union warns
- Scottish Government doesn’t truly value the work of FDA members
- Selling pension provision on the cheap will not address civil service struggle to recruit and retain key staff, says FDA
- Senior Civil Service pay review will only succeed if ministers ditch 1% cap, says FDA
- Surrounding Ministers with yes men and women will not lead to the successful delivery of Brexit, says FDA
- Suspending open and fair competition in recruiting civil servants for Brexit is 'a worrying development', says FDA
- The House of Commons is once again letting down victims of harassment, says FDA
- Theresa May must take action against MPs peddling civil service conspiracy theories, says FDA
- Under-pressure HMRC staff need proper investment - Association of Revenue & Customs
- Withdraw civil service pay guidance or face legal action, FDA warns
- Depression, breakdowns and departments under pressure: the FDA finds the real impact of unsustainable workloads in the civil service
Last Modified : 08/10/2018