A long running wage dispute at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is near its end after DWP branch secretaries of the union agreed to certain increases.
A pay ballot recommendation for a three-year pay offer which will see a 15% pay increase of £1,950 for the lowest paid over three years, as well as a 20% increase in starting salaries in the department has been agreed by the DWP group executive committee. According to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the offer also sees the controversial bonus scheme, Performance Development System (PDS) radically amended from its original form in April 2003, with the eradication of ‘rigid quotas and hated relative assessment panels’. The dispute, stretching 16 months and including a...
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