PCS: Civil service performance pay should be scrapped
Responding to news that performance related ‘bonus’ payments in the Ministry of Defence were almost £40 million in the six months to October, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said:
“PCS believes the system of performance related pay in the civil service, imposed by a previous Conservative government, is an unfair way to reward staff and should be scrapped with the money redistributed in overall salaries.
“The system means that money is withheld from staff every year and given, on a non-pensionable basis, only to those who meet certain criteria which vary from department to department and favour higher paid jobs at the expense of others in lower grades.
“This has held down wages and pensions for the majority of civil servants – including in the Ministry of Defence, where more than 50% earn less than £20,000 a year and thousands will be hit by the public sector pay freeze.”
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Notes
– For information and interview requests contact PCS national press officer Richard Simcox on 020 7801 2747 or 07833 978216
– The Public and Commercial Services union represents civil and public servants in central government, including civilian staff in the Ministry of Defence. It has more than 300,000 members in over 200 departments and agencies, as well as staff in parts of government transferred to the private sector. PCS is the UK’s sixth largest union and is affiliated to the TUC. The general secretary is Mark Serwotka and the president is Janice Godrich
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