The following details have been supplied by the TUC: Incentive-related pay schemes can stress rather than motivate employees, according to new research. The study by academics from the universities of East Anglia and Sheffield explored the relationship between three types of ‘contingent pay’ – performance-related, profit-related, and employee share-ownership – and positive employee attitudes such … Continue reading Incentive pay schemes make workers sick

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The TUC has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to make clear to Britain’s bosses that any watering down of workers’ rights following Brexit is off the table. The call follows the emergence of a letter sent to MPs by well-connected Brexiteer Simon Boyd, the head of REIDsteel, which details a list of workers’ rights … Continue reading Prime minister must stand firm on workers’ rights

The following have been supplied by the PCS DWP Group :   Mental Health First Aiders in DWP Members may be aware that the DWP is keen to set up a network of Mental Health First Aider’s across the Department to support staff experiencing mental health issues and to promote and raise awareness of mental … Continue reading Mental Health First Aiders in DWP

Members have raised questions with the Branch on specific points. We have raised these with PCS DWP Group and have received answers, the details are published below: Question 1: We were still having problems in PIP Programme (part of Corporate Centre) regarding being allowed to start at 7:30 am i.e. “you can’t claim flexi before … Continue reading DWP Pay – AA to HEO – Snippets

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Years of pay restrictions and predictions of an inflation increase could see the issue coming back towards the top of members’ priorities in 2017. Analysis shows that civil servants’ pay has been hugely eroded by various government policies – more so than for other workers across the economy as a whole, and in the wider … Continue reading Pay rises up the campaign agenda

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