Ministers planning to cut civil servant redundancy pay at same time as 91,000 jobs | Civil service | The Guardian

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  1. Fucking some Gaul these cunts like. “aye were gonna sack as many as possible and we don’t think that the redundancy pay is right so we’re cutting that too”

  2. Not that it would matter to the Torys but isn’t it illegal to change someone’s contractual terms of employment without some agreement or at the very least consultation?

  3. Jobs, pay, and pensions are all at issue for PCS. Voting papers will be mailed to members in six weeks.

    What side do you support?

  4. As he reads the article, he sighs.

    What is going on now? After reading that, the email I received today makes more sense. Oh my god, this is absurd nonsense.

    Although I don’t believe I am currently protected by this nonsense, I am outraged on behalf of everyone. This was wrong, turned into nonsense, and is now being met with pitchforks. What in the world is happening up there?

  5. Jesus I can only imagine how difficult it is for Whitehall to prop up the Tory government with its current staffing levels.

    How the fuck this country will keep running when gut it like this. Though I suppose I’m sure some lovely Tory donor has a company they can outsource to for 3 times the cost and a quarter of the output.

  6. Same thing happened when I was in local government. They announced a reduction in the previously generous redundancy package, then about a month later they announced the redundancies.

  7. JRM finds it easy to continually bully the Civil Service because we don’t answer back. What a cowardly man he is.

  8. They could surely just reduce the incredible 30% pension contributions civil servants are getting and keep a load of them

  9. They’ll do exactly what they did with PPE contracts – cancel the existing ones with legit companies, fast-track a company owned by a mate who bunged them a donation, ignore the fact their products/new staff are inferior/unsafe/can’t do their job.

    Standard Tory move.

  10. Whenever you think they can’t be any more of a cunt, they find surprising new ways to be more of a cunt…and on and on and on and on

    They should just make that their oarty slogan, they like slogans

  11. The courts are going to get inundated with claims at this rate as well.
    I guess they looked at what P&O did to their employees and thought ‘we can get away with that as well’.

  12. NGL The civil service has been too big for a long time. Hopefully now they can be held to account too for this shambles.

  13. TBH, if there is truth to this, the Civil Service should strike en masse until there’s a formal (and grovelling) apology made, and as legally-binding an agreement as possible given that the Government will not pursue this course of action before they go back to work.

    Making cuts is one thing, but double-fucking the people you’re cutting is asking for a slap.

  14. It’s the same old rhetoric of 2010 about the need for responsible Government spending. Except this time this all of a sudden prudence with taxpayer funding is undermined somewhat when HMT are writing off £30bn of fraud each year, procurement has plummeted to mafia like depths and MPs have generously accepted pay rises and increases in taxpayer funded allowances in order to shield them from the cost of living crisis. The CS is the size that it is due to dealing with Brexit and COVID. This Government now feels the need to punish us for that.

  15. Why don’t they start by cutting their own fucking pay first?

    Who the fuck do they think will do the actual work of the government?

  16. If they do cut 91000 jobs, I wonder what the odds are that at least one of them responds with really drastic action, the sort of drastic action that our Government will personally feel.

  17. The services will get worse, the quality of the employees will go down as many go into private businesses, and they will struggle to recruit people as time goes by. Seems like it is the perfect cocktail to push for privatisation of some or all of the service, so the big four consultancy firms must be licking their lips in anticipation.

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