The civil service’s biggest union is encouraging its members to make formal complaints to managers about the push for them to return to their offices. The Telegraph has more.
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has provided members with template grievance letters to submit to managers, voicing opposition to Government plans requiring increased workplace attendance.
The PCS said the letters were part of an action plan agreed by its national executive committee in response to calls for civil servants to work in the office at least 60% of the time.
As well as encouraging workers to lodge formal complaints, the PCS is asking branches and groups in the Civil Service to canvas support for industrial action.
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg hit out at the union, saying: “Unions do not seek a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay, but money for nothing. They are leeches on the taxpayer.”
It comes after the PCS called for staff to be given a four-day week for the same pay, and after workers at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) voted to strike in protest over going back to the workplace.
At the ONS, 73% of voting employees have backed strike action after being told to work in the office for at least two days a week.
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