Membership Benefits September 2015 Extra £20 off and PCS member discount on car insurance  Are you making the most of your PCS membership? PCS members enjoy an exclusive discount on LV= car insurance, and can now get a bonus £20 off. With excellent cover with a Defaqto 5 Star Rating why not call them or … Continue reading

The latest ediction of the PCS DWP Group magazine is available here.

Some 2,380 people died within two weeks of being found fit for work, according to figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Read the full BBC News article here.

Members may be interested in reviewing the link below regarding zero hours contracts in the UK posted by the Guardian. Link

Further to our original post (below), the BBC has posted an update that states the people responsible for the "fake claimant" statements may face disciplinary action. Full article here.       The BBC has published a news article that reports DWP has "made up" stories about claimants on recent benefit sanction information leaflets. The … Continue reading UPDATE: Government “Advertising” scheme “recommendations” don’t seem to be true….

The BBC had published a news article that reports DWP has "made up" stories about claimants on recent benefit sanction information leaflets. The full article can be found here and is quite shocking really, though no one really likes getting lied to. Hopefully not all Civil Servants will be considered to support this type of … Continue reading Government “Advertising” scheme “recommendations” don’t seem to be true….

Business Secretary Sajid Javid is seeking to overturn a long-running ban on employers using agency workers to break strikes, alongside other restrictive measures in the Government's new Trade Union Bill. The new measures will make the fundamental right to strike almost meaningless. Employers will get 14 days' notice of a strike (rather than 7 currently), … Continue reading Don’t let employers start using agency workers to break strikes