Panic Over Pay Offer

DWP Managers today announced that staff meetings would be held tomorrow morning to discuss the pay offer. This is the first time your BEC can recall that such meetings have been held. Managers were given details of the pay offer and time to digest it before the official announcement was to be made. The information appeared to be embargoed on the Departmental intranet until after the meetings had been held. But then PCS issued this information regarding the pay offer and announcing a ballot in which they would be recommending a "No" vote.

Lo and behold within an hour all the information was put on the intranet with the expected management opinion that the offer was a good one. Presumabaly the meetings will still go ahead tomorrow so it will be interesting to see what message we are given. Your BEC will be meeting next week to discuss the ballot and will provide more information here. As they say watch this space!