{"id":214022,"date":"2025-06-25T20:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214022\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T20:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T20:16:11","slug":"pcs-announces-six-weeks-of-strikes-at-civil-service-pension-scheme-administrator-mycsp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214022\/","title":{"rendered":"PCS announces six weeks of strikes at Civil Service Pension Scheme administrator MyCSP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PCS members working for civil service pensions administrator MyCSP are set to take six weeks\u2019 strike action as they seek formal recognition for the union\u00a0ahead of the transfer of staff to outsourcing giant Capita.<\/p>\n<p>The union has announced strikes on the following dates: 7-11 July, 14-18 July, 21-25 July, 28 July-1 August, 4-8 August, 11-15 August.\u00a0The strike will affect offices in Liverpool and Cheadle Hulme.<\/p>\n<p>PCS has\u00a0156 members in MyCSP,\u00a0including pension administrators, senior pension administrators, telephony administrators, team leaders and managers.<\/p>\n<p>MyCSP administers pensions for around 1.7 million\u00a0scheme members. Capita is\u00a0due to take over the administration of the Civil Service Pension Scheme\u00a0at the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>PCS said\u00a0MyCSP has refused to recognise PCS and engage the union in formal consultation in the TUPE transfer process ahead of the transfer\u00a0contract from MyCSP Ltd to Capita on 1 December.<\/p>\n<p>On 7 July, the same day the strikes begin, senior Cabinet Office officials will appear at the Public Accounts Committee to speak about the levels of customer service scheme members are now receiving, and the upcoming transfer of administration to Capita.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, public spending watchdog the National Audit Office\u00a0published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilserviceworld.com\/professions\/article\/nao-flags-civil-service-pension-scheme-failings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">damning assessment of<\/a> the organisation\u2019s customer services record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MyCSP span out of the civil service in 2012 as part of then-Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude\u2019s mutuals drive. So-called \u201cemployee partners\u201d own 25% of the company, with the remainder now owned by private sector business Equiniti Group. The Cabinet Office still has overall responsibility for the Civil Service Pension Scheme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PCS said the heart of its dispute with MyCSP is the company\u2019s refusal to acknowledge it as the recognised trade union for staff, effectively shutting it out of the formal process for transferring workers to Capita.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lack of recognition means PCS has no official role in talks related to Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations. The TUPE process is designed to ensure workers\u2019 terms and conditions are not negatively impacted when a business is taken on by a new employer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The TUPE process for the Civil Service Pension Scheme\u2019s change of administration was due to start last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PCS members working for civil service pensions administrator MyCSP are set to take six weeks\u2019 strike action as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-214022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114745847790285047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}