The Prime Minister has announced a pay freeze for thousands of senior civil servants, NHS managers, judiciary and military top brass under moves aimed at saving £3 billion over the next three years.

FROM THE PCS Since 2004, when the government announced 100,000 posts would be cut from the civil service, tens of thousands of civil and public servants have lost their jobs and about 2,000 offices have been closed. Pay for many civil servants in recent years has been frozen or increased below the rate of inflation. And yet, the

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, topped Labour's announcement that it wanted a freeze for higher earners in 2010 with a further pay freeze across the public sector in the following year

Thousands of senior civil servants doctors and judges have had their pay capped by Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 1.5 per cent.

Chancellor Alistair Darling announces a pay freeze on senior civil servants, NHS managers and GPs.

DOCTORS, nurses, teachers and civil servants across Scotland face a blanket pay freeze from April next year under moves being proposed by the Conservatives to cope with publi

John Bercow, the Commons Speaker, is being urged to stop ministers from rushing through legislation that will slash redundancy terms for civil servants and clear the way for a cull of up to 100,000 jobs

A pay freeze imposed on senior civil servants, generals, judges and doctors will have no impact on pay deals across the wider economy, the Government's own pay advisers have said.

A quarter of a million civil and public servants will be starting a 48 hour stoppage on 8 and 9 March over the unilateral changes to their contracts, which would see staff robbed of up to a third of their entitlements and see loyal civil and public servants lose tens of thousands of pounds if they

THE highest earners in the public sector were last night given notice by Alistair Darling that they were in line for a salary freeze next year.