Senior civil servant’s £500,000 retirement pay-off sets new Whitehall record for the most money pocketed by a mandarin in a single year Clare Moriarty, 57, has retired after 35 years working across the Civil Service Has been Permanent Secretary to Defra and Department for Exiting the EU Landed redundancy payment of over £300,000 on top of … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of civil servants are still working from home two weeks after Boris Johnson urged workers to get back to the office to help save the economy. Ministerial departments in Whitehall are said to be ‘ghost towns’ with some seeing just 2 per cent of staff arriving at work this week, according to … Read more
Tory MPs accuse union chiefs of wanting civil servants to ‘stay at home forever’ after defying Boris Johnson’s call for them to get back into the office Andrew Percy said the union chiefs can’t have a ‘stay at home’ policy forever Union members were told to challenge bosses who ordered them back to desks Former … Read more
Whitehall departments were last night told to order thousands of civil servants back to their desks to start clearing the backlog in public services – while top firms are still encouraging employees to work remotely. Boris Johnson has told mandarins to tear up the ‘work from home’ guidance which has been in place since March … Read more
Now civil servants claim they ‘do not feel comfortable’ with a Treasury room named after Winston Churchill A Treasury room is named after former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Civil servants are uncomfortable with the name and have complained about it Rishi Sunak has defended the name of the room due to its historical significance … Read more
What an example! Just one in five civil servants have returned to the office, as Boris Johnson urges employees to stop working from home Visitor numbers to London’s Square Mile are barely up from height of lockdown Cabinet Office says proportion of its staff back at work was around 20 per cent Ex Tory leader … Read more
Critics have called on civil servants to lead by example and save Britain’s high streets by getting back to the office. City centres are facing financial ruin after officer workers were told to continue working from until next summer, despite the easing of lockdown. There are fears that such a move could spell disaster for … Read more