News

PCS supports recommendations in a report by MPs that MoD should do more to ensure that contracted staff receive comparable employment contracts to staff directly employed by the MoD.

Industrial action works, and inspires others to stand up and say ‘enough is enough’, said the chair of the PCS parliamentary group as he delivered the group’s annual report to conference the day after delegates agreed to ballot over pay and pensions.

Government plans to restore nature and halt the decline in species in the UK do not address the cliff edge we face in protecting and enhancing the natural environment, says PCS in response to a Defra consultation.

Amid pronouncements from some in government that some agencies should be privatised or shut down, PCS has stressed to the Cabinet Office the vital role that staff in arm's-length bodies have played in keeping the country running during the pandemic.

PCS members working for the DVLA are worried and angered by reports that the government is considering closing the agency in a second ‘Bonfire of the Quangos’.