The following has been supplied by PCS HQ:To: All BBW PCS Members on the DWP contract  Your Branch Executive Committee (BEC) has met to discuss proposed changes to telephony work and other issues in BBW. The DWP and BBW legal teams are now moving forward on their understanding that TUPE will not apply. The start … Continue reading Balfour Beatty Workplace – Operational Changes: Your jobs!

DWP have today announced a second phase of large scale Voluntary Exit Schemes for DWP Operations. As with the first phase of exit schemes that were announced in September, this next phase of exits is also targeted at specific groups of staff, in particular grades, in various parts of DWP Operations.The full specifics can be … Continue reading Another Voluntary Exit Scheme announced in DWP Operations

PCS nationally are trying to ensure they have the most up-to-date contact details for members.Sometimes information is not able to be sent via the DWP IT system and external contact details are useful in those situations.PCS NW Regional Office has supplied us with a couple of documents to enable members to get added to a … Continue reading Give us your details/Change your details

The branch office has received the following extract from the Parliamentary debate that took place in the House of Commons on 27th November. It concerns the DWP Offices on the Fylde Coast.The full debate of the day is published here (column 132WH onwards) and the relevant extract forwarded to us by the office of Paul Maynard … Continue reading Parliamentary Debate on local issues

The following details have been supplied by PCS DWP Group:Management announce further staff moves Bradford and Kilmarnock Benefit Centres to transfer to Fraud and Error Service.As part of management’s ongoing strategy of moving work around DWP, management have announced the transfer of further staff from the benefits directorate. Management say that this is an attempt … Continue reading Management announce further staff moves

The following details have been supplied by PCS DWP Group:Benefit Directorate Flexible Working Hours Agreement- Contractual Start and Finish Times - Paragraph 2.5 of the BD FWH Agreement states "An employee cannot be required to come in earlier or stay later than their contractual start or finish times. However, an employee may choose to do so … Continue reading Benefit Directorate Contractual Start and Finish Times

To all members of PCS Fylde Central Benefits and Services Branch in Steria Shared ServicesDear ColleaguesThe purpose of this post is to advise members of meetings to discuss the outcome of the negotiations on the privatisation from the Shared Services to Steria. The outcome was:SSCL will recognise PCS across the new company and will continue … Continue reading SHARED SERVICES – MEMBERS’ MEETINGS

The government inflated estimates of people on a disability benefit subsequently found to be ‘fit for work’, a Labour MP has said, suggesting cases are much more widespread than is actually the case. Work and pensions select committee member Sheila Gilmore MP said she has received an admission from employment minister Esther McVey that the … Continue reading Government has inflated the fit for work figures

<!--[if !mso]>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> Bullying and harassment is a major problem within many workplaces, however often it remains a hidden problem and can be accepted or even encouraged by the culture of an organisation.Bullying at work can never be acceptable. The TUC believes that all workers have the right to be treated with dignity and … Continue reading Bullying at Work Guidance for members

The following has been supplied by PCS HQ: Thank you again to all PCS members who supported the very successful strike on 25 October and then showed that you were ready for another potential day of action on 31 October. Ever since the government announced Steria as the preferred bidder PCS has constantly pressed for … Continue reading Shared Services News