Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union have reiterated that they have "reached an agreement in principle" on pensions, pay, a shorter working week, culture and operational changes. The union's executive recommends that CWU members vote in favour of the proposals in an upcoming ballot.

Both the Work and Pensions Committee and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee have written to the Federation of Small Businesses, Santander, HMRC and major shareholders in Carillion to try to get a better idea of operations at the construction outsourcing company. 

The British Steel Pension Scheme has closed its 'Time to Choose' consultation, with the scheme receiving responses from 97,000 of its 122,000 members.

The government has responded to its consultation on the draft National Employment Savings Trust (Amendment) Order 2018, and laid it before parliament on Monday.

The Communication Workers’ Union has announced that it has agreed a deal with Royal Mail over pensions and pay.

Trade union GMB attacked Prime Minister Theresa May over her statement in the Observer that she would "fine greedy bosses who betray their workers".

Universities UK has put forward a proposal to change the pension benefits for academics to defined contribution from April 1 2019, but has committed "to consider in three years’ time if defined benefits can be reintroduced should the scheme’s funding conditions improve". 

The Work and Pensions Committee and the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee are starting a joint inquiry into the collapse of Carillion, which has left thousands of employees and pension scheme members in limbo.

In a case against four people, the Pensions Regulator has for the first time obtained an order from the High Court to make the defendants repay the funds taken from their victims.