The remit provides a framework within which all civil service departments will set pay for 2018 to 2019. It details that departments “will be able to give average awards higher than the 1- 1.5% range in exchange for plans to improve workforce productivity”. Departments will additionally not be permitted to reduce their performance-related pay pots to provide additional funding for the consolidated pay bill, for example to fund an across-the board increase in excess of 1.5%, but “must be targeted to address recruitment and retention pressures”. The PSC said at the time that this “improvement in productivity”, otherwise known as further cuts, is being proposed despite the fact there have been 180,000 jobs cut in the civil service, making it the smallest civil service since the Second World War. PSC members have reportedly lost an average of £4,400 in wages in real terms and face ever growing workloads. The PSC’s 2018 pay claim calls for a fully- funded 5% pay rise, a Living Wage of £10 an hour, pay equality across the civil service and a common pay and grading structure. We feel that our claim for this year is the right place to start to redress the balance.
In the recent press release PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said:
“Not content with reneging on its commitments to engage in consultation on an issue as fundamental as our members’ pay, the government is now adding insult to injury by claiming it never intended to consult in the first place. This shambolic state of affairs cannot go unchallenged and we will now pursue this matter to the High Court.”
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How to prepare if the UK leaves the EU with no deal 24 August 2018
The government has published a series of technical notices, setting out further detail on the unlikely event that the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019 without a deal. The notices will ensure businesses and citizens have time to prepare by setting out steps they may need to take in the event of ‘no deal’.
The notices include:
• Applying for EU-funded programmes • Civil nuclear and nuclear research • Farming • Importing and exporting • Labelling products and making them safe • Money and tax • Regulating medicines and medical equipment • State aid • Studying in the UK or EU • Workplace rights
HMRC is developing partnership packs that will provide further technical information to enable its stakeholders to support their members and customers with any queries they may have.
HMRC is aiming for the packs to be available for use in September and will share them with stakeholders as soon as they are available.
The collection of technical notes on ‘How to prepare if the UK leaves the EU with no deal’ can all be found on GOV.UK.
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The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
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