Private sector staff are envious of their public sector counterparts on issues including job security, training and workplace stress.

Employers are rising to the challenge of providing tailored business-focused training despite falling budgets, the CIPD has revealed.

The chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a two-year pay freeze for public-sector staff earning more than 21,000 in salary.

The Government is to raise VAT from 17.5% to 20% from 4 January

The Government has pledged to take 850,000 low earning employees out of income tax through new tax breaks.

Labour leader Ed Miliband’s Budget mantra of the “same old Tories” may have struck a note with the wider population, but chancellor George Osborne’s claim the party “unashamedly” backs business gets...