United Kingdom - Union continues to resist government plans to cut redundancy pay - October 8, 2010

The PCS civil service union is challenging the government over its plans to make substantial cuts in the redundancy compensation scheme. The union it is still prepared to negotiate with the government over the scale of the reductions. The union took the previous government to the High Court over the scheme. The Court confirmed that the scheme could not altered without the agreement of all six unions in the civil service (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 3 April, May, June and July-August 2010).

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/381;

http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/news_centre/index.cfm/id/4C2BAAA5-1961-4A07-9054C7A804ADC896

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI atwww.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2009.