PCS: Govt trying to 'make it easier to sack people'

Friday, 8 October 2010 12:00 AM

Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), rejects, on the Today programme, the government's offer on civil service redundancy reform:

"We represent the overwhelming bulk of the people whose jobs will be under threat in the uncertain times that we're in.

"They are reducing by two thirds the amounts of compulsory redundancy payments. They are removing people accrued rights that they have got over many years of service in an attempt to make it cheaper to sack people.

"Not only is that unfair, it actually flies in the face of two high court rulings that said this approach was unlawful without our agreement when the previous government tried to do something similar.

"People are being misled in an attempt into try to bully them into thinking they have to go and they have to go on reduced terms."

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