Public and Commercial Services Union

Welcome to the group equality web pages.

The promotion of equality is a priority area for PCS in bargaining, campaigning and organising, and in the delivery of service to the members.

DWP group is committed to promoting equality and tackling discrimination, these web pages have been set up as part of the strategy to increase the profile of equality issues and to provide information to members on a wide range of equality and diversity issues.

The group has 4 equality committees, the women's committee, the black members committee, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) committee and the equality committee all elected annually.  Each of these committees meets quarterly and feeds into the GEC identifying areas of concern to take forward onto the bargaining agenda. 

Issues such as childcare, PDS and discrimination, disability monitoring, Islamaphobia, Gender Recognition Act, attendance management and reasonable adjustments, and inclusion of under represented groups, have been the subject of discussion by the committees amongst many others.