Health and Safety Executive to strike over pay

Staff
in the Health and Safety Executive have voted in favour of a one-day strike
over pay, with the possibility of further industrial action.

A
breakdown in pay negotiations led to almost two-thirds of the 1,340 Public and
Commercial Services Union (PCS) members voting in favour of a one-day strike.

The
union claims the current pay offer would see more than a quarter of staff
getting a below-inflation pay increase, and some receiving only 0.5 per cent
increases for each of the next three years.

Mark
Serwotka, general secretary of PCS, said it was yet another example of
departments ‘hell bent’ on giving staff a real-term pay cut, and furthered the
pay crisis in the civil service.

Sign up to our weekly round-up of HR news and guidance

Receive the Personnel Today Direct e-newsletter every Wednesday

Email(Required)

OptOut

From time to time, we will send you emails about selected products, events and services from Personnel Today and OHW+ - but you can choose to opt-out at any time. If you do not wish to receive these emails, please tick this box.

Name

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Δ

Recently
there has been widespread industrial action in local government, with the PCS
claiming 80,000 civil servants had taken part.

By Michael Millar