Record of motions carried at group conference 2008
Below is the record of motions carried at the Revenue and Customs group conference in May this year for your information.
Motion Description Outcome
number Pay
1A The GEC pay motion with a basket of Carried
(EM17) objectives and actions to meet those objectives
1 One year deal, catch up payments, inflation plus Carried
pay rises, pay scales max after 5 years
2 AA to SO reach the maximum rate of pay within Carried
3 years of entering their pay grade
3 Negotiate on AA minimum wage of £14,500 and Carried
increase other rates proportionately
Facility Time
8 System Improvements needed and resist cuts Carried
in facility time
10 Better ways to allocate facilities time Carried
11 Take legal advice on legality of time limits for TU Carried
training and renegotiate subject to that advice
12 Change guidance to recognise MPPA does Carried
constitute disciplinary action. Also investigate
action taken against PCS Reps
Industrial Relations general issues
15 Work with HMRC to ensure they deliver on Carried
increased accountability
16 Departmental Whitley to cover central Carried
negotiators
17 Issues relating to terms of reference for projects Carried
Job Evaluation
19 Publishing job descriptions following job Carried
evaluations
20 GEC to investigate the burden on O grade staff Carried
and take action to improve the situation.
Workforce Change
25A Agreement with HMRC on staffing, working Carried
(EM14) conditions and job security with actions if
objectives are not delivered.
26 Put together a pack to help branches with Carried
workforce change
27 Get the Dept to conduct full equality impact Carried
assessments
Local Compliance
39 Step up efforts to campaign for compliance staff Carried
locally through national campaigns
Debt Management & Banking
43 A list of demands relating to Field Force and GEC Carried
opposition if they can’t be achieved
Customer Contact
44 GEC to secure members rights to take time off Carried
from Contact Centres
45 Oppose call handling targets and resist cuts in Carried
staff in Contact Centres
46 GEC to negotiate fairer measures of advisor Carried
performance in Contact Centre’s
48 Review the H & S of Contact Centres members Carried
focused on the stress of MIS over use. Tell HMRC
how to improve
49 GEC to demand sufficient training and ongoing Carried
development of Contact Centres members
52 Ensure a manager at O grade or above in every Carried
(48A) enquiry centre during public opening hours
Processing
55 GEC got it wrong, seek agreements on LEAN with Carried
list of objectives, 6 weeks to achieve or ballot for
action. GEC to take instruction from PSAP branches on
the issue
57 GEC to campaign against threats from MPPC to job Carried
cuts and office closures including ballot for industrial
action
Estates & Support Services
59 Campaign of action to resist the privatisation of our Carried
current in-house security members
60 Make Dept aware of the impact of cuts in ESS Carried
before estate changes have been addressed
HR & Learning
62 Get a full review of the online HR system within a Carried
month of conference, do it jointly with PCS and
address problems
Valuation Office Agency
65A Safeguards in relation to VOA accommodation and Carried
(EM32) workstations
65 Our motion, objectives to protect staffing in VO Carried
66 Our motion, deliver good pay increase and parity Carried
for VO members with HMRC
67 Explore new areas of work for VOA Carried
Rule Amendments
68 Our motion, rules on electing standing orders Carried
Branch Organisation
80 GEC to produce branch reorganisation guidelines Carried
following consultation by end October 2008
81 GEC to commit funding and facilities to BWO’s and Carried
BWAC’s
82A Concerns over how the elections were run and Remitted
(EM5) how best to conduct workplace ballots.
Group Organisation
84 Set up a GEC working group to monitor, spot Carried
trends and advise on personal case issues
Union Learning
96 Our motion re training for new GEC members Carried
97 Learning work for HMRC to be official time Carried
98 Dept to provide full support for IT in Workplace Carried
Learning Centres
Campaigns & Communications
104 A list of objectives on jobs, offices and Remitted
organisation with a list of campaign actions subject
to ballot
Flexible Working Hours
130A Campaign against attacks on flexible working in Carried
(EM9) Contact Centres. Aims of the campaign and what
action we will take.
EM6 Campaign against attacks on flexible working in Carried
Contact Centres. Aims of the campaign and what
action we will take.
Bullying
139 Pursue all avenues to address bullying including Carried
legal action if possible
140 Consult reps re questions to ask in survey of all Carried
members to find where bullying is most prevalent.
Act on results
141 Negotiate to get the complainant details of Carried
penalties the respondent has received when found
against
Consultation on HR Changes
145 Audit all HR changes and ballot members on them Carried
by end September 2008
Leave Carried
146 Improve rules to allow element of adoption leave Carried
to be used prior to the child being matched
Discipline
150 Changes to discipline guidance to reflect full Carried
disclosure to alleged offenders and greater
independence of decision makers
151 Get Early Management Action recognised as formal Carried
action and therefore the right to be accompanied
152 Renegotiate the Computer Misuse Policy Carried
Pre Surplus
155 Renegotiate the current guidance on PMMA and Carried
take action if the OS refuse to negotiate
Sick Absences
157 Concern about the inflexibility of the current MPPA Carried
procedures and negotiate improvements with action if
required
158 Act on instructions of Motion 66/2006 and send a Carried
full report on negotiations to branches within 6 months
Targets
162 Ensure targets are not enforced in individual PDE’s Carried
Temporary Promotions
164 End all temporary promotions Carried
165 Period of TP immediately prior to substantive Carried
promotion to count for starting salary
Accommodation
166 Provide support for members who become SRM’s Carried
167 Negotiate to reverse the loss of building facilities Carried
for rest, prayer and exercise
HR Other Issues
168 Key protections for members homeworking Carried
169 Ballot members on the Homeworking policy Carried
170 Measures to stop abuses of the filling vacancies Carried
process
171 Negotiate to enable movement of staff across Carried
business streams
175 Widen the scope of the PFW agreement to cover Carried
other work measurement systems
Disabilities
191 Want an AGS who leads on disability issues Carried
192 Amend the E-HR system disability declaration Carried
Equalities
197 Negotiate policy on the menopause Carried
198 Get a domestic violence policy implemented Carried
203 Campaign to recruit young activists Carried
(199A)
Health & Safety
205 Campaign for an appropriate working environment Carried
and oppose further moves to hot desking for staff
based in one office
206 Get Dept to separately fund H & S and streamline Carried
the system for spending the money
207 Get Dept to deal with H & S and DDA requirements Carried
more efficiently
208 GEC to get H & S Reps sufficient time to do duties. Carried
No limits to be imposed
209 H & S Reps time off to attend training must be Carried
recognised
210 Get HMRC to take a proactive approach to stress at Carried
the workplace
211 GEC to fund at least two meetings a year of the Carried
H & S Regional Chairs
212 Raise the importance of H & S and ensure staff Carried
get relevant training. Also every manager to have
a generic PDE reference to H & S
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