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Public and Commercial Services Union
The Protocols are an agreement between the Cabinet Office and the Council of Civil Service Unions (since replaced by the NTUC), which was endorsed by Permanent Secretaries, the Cabinet Secretary and the Cabinet Office Minister. This major agreement resulted from negotiations following PCS industrial action and campaigning to protect public services and our members.
The aim of the agreement is to avoid compulsory redundancies for those who want to continue their civil service (or NDPB) careers. It aims to provide a consistent approach across the civil service and NDPBs in dealing with surplus staff situations. It applies to all employees whether or not they are trade union members.
Our lads and lasses that were made compulsory redundant would be thrilled to find out the 'pain' was avoided by some public sector workers..... and some CS that were made redundant, got their pay offs, waited the required amount of time, re applied to join the CS, are back in their jobs. Nice.