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The civil service eSector is an area of the website specifically for our civil service members. It covers issues that are of particular interest to them, such as pay, pensions and redundancy. There's also a private discussion forum where they can exchange comments about these issues. We'll also be building a new range of content about the coalition government's cuts agenda, which will have a major impact on civil service jobs.
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It includes:
- civil service compensation scheme changes
- pensions
- civil service sector executive committee.
Civil service compensation scheme
Last updated/published: 19/02/2010 [ID: 2010/00285]
Public Eye - Special newsletter on the Civil Service Compensation Scheme
Last updated/published: 17/12/2009 [ID: 2009/01561]
The government wants to impose disappointing and unfair changes to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, despite better proposals from the unions. Marie McGrath reports in this article that appeared in Report December 2009
Last updated/published: 28/09/2009 [ID: 2009/01228]
Prospect campaign leaflet on Cabinet Office proposals for the the Civil Service Compensation Scheme
Following days of unhelpful speculation, on 6 July we attended a meeting at the Cabinet Office to be given a statement by Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office. We were informed that in light of the recent court proceedings involving PCS, the Government was taking measures to amend the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS). You can read the full statement and letter to Paul Noon, Chair of CCSU.
The further court judgement had ruled that the government could not amend the CSCS without the agreement of all the unions, thus establishing that the scheme is based on accrued rights and is therefore protected by law.
The Minister is now seeking to take powers under a ‘money bill' to cap the level of payments made under the scheme, to 12 months' pay for compulsory redundancies and 15 months for voluntary payments. Both of these are substantially below the existing arrangements, which were found to be legally enforceable by the courts; and far below the rest of the public sector. The statement makes it clear that these powers are to be in place for exits agreed after September. The statement further says that proposals to amend the scheme in the longer term by legislation will be published for consultation, with a view to conducting further negotiations to seek to reach an agreement. At the meeting with the Cabinet Office we made it clear that both their proposals and the process they intended to pursue were unacceptable to us and we sought an urgent meeting with the Minister. For full details please refer to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme page(s).
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