PCS has issued a briefing for members on the DWP pay offer, please read it here.

The NEC Elections opened Thursday 21 April, members should allow until Friday 29 April for their ballot pack to arrive. A replacement ballot pack can be requested by e-mailing balloting@pcs.org.uk, the e-mail must contain the membership or national insurance number along with the ballot address including the postcode, this is to enable us to check … Continue reading NEC Elections – A Message from the General Secretary

The results from the recent Branch survey on the potential changes to the CSCS, including the percentage responses and additional comments can be found here.

The Branch is recommending the candidates detailed on the document available by clicking on the photo link. Please read the information regarding voting and also the contact details should your ballot paper not arrive promptly.

The latest edition of the Branch Newsletter containing (amongst other things) an informative article on CSCS, information on historic job losses at Fylde and how our pay has dropped in real terms can be found here.

The PCS Women’s Seminar will be held at the Novotel hotel in Birmingham on the 25-26 June 2016. The theme will be “Hear our Voice”. See the rest of the details and how to apply to attend here.

Your end-of-year rating must always be based on a balanced consideration of your personal performance over the reporting period. DWP People Performance Procedure supports performance improvement but this cannot be achieved by misuse of ‘Must improve’ ratings. The ‘Achieved’ rating encompasses the widest span of performance and may include performance that is verging on needing … Continue reading Dispute unfair ‘Must improve’ ratings

The PCS National Executive Committee (NEC) have prepared the attached document for members to use to respond to the Government's Consultation over their proposals to make detrimental changes to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme It is essential that as many members as possible respond to the Government consultation that closes on 4 May 2016.  The … Continue reading Civil Service Compensation Scheme – A Response

A petition on the government website calling for the cessation of changes to the CSCS is available for members and for their families and friends and members of the public to be signed. The link to the petition is here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125673 The petition makes the points that: Francis Maude, introduced changes to civil service redundancy … Continue reading Civil service Compensation Scheme Petition