Sometimes it can take years for civil servants to get what they want. But with their index-linked trillion-pound pension promises, they can afford to wait. Civil servants may come and civil servants may go. But the civil service lives for ever. And it has all the time in the world. It knows it will win eventually. That slowly-slowly approach to Government means that nothing is ever rejected once a...

THE Government is facing a series of national strikes by hundreds of thousands of civil servants in the run-up to the general election in a bitter row over cuts to compensatio

The pay of more than 170 senior civil servants who earn more than the Prime Minister have been disclosed as the starting point of a radical move towards more open government.

Almost 300 civil servants have earned more than the Prime Minister in the last year, according to government figures.

Labour faces a fresh assault from unions with civil servants threatening to co-ordinate rolling strikes with other disaffected public sector workers this winter

Significant cuts in the number of Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil servants and military top brass will help fund a pay rise for junior ranks in the Armed Forces, the Liberal Democrats said.

Some 171 top civil servants are paid more than Prime Minister David Cameron, according to government figures.

TOP Scottish civil servants are among a list of 172 leading civil servants earning more than £150,000 published yesterday.

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 Telegraph and Daily Mail report that the next Conservative government will "rewrite civil service contracts to include a new legally-binding "fiduciary responsibility to taxpayers"." Civil servants who are "judged to have failed to spend public money prudently will be...