If you are being offered overtime by DWP please bear in mind the following taken from the PCS wesite ;-
Support the overtime ban – save jobs in DWP
26 Mar 2008
DWP management recently published their overtime spending figures for April 2005 – January 2008. The figures show £131.5 million has been spent on overtime in the past three years.
Over 5,000 jobs could have been saved
Based on the average DWP salary the money spent on overtime could have seen the retention or recruitment of an extra 5,260 full-time equivalent staff.
PCS has long been concerned that overtime is being used to mask job vacancies across DWP. In 2004, PCS negotiated with DWP a set of Workforce Management Procedures to ensure that in the midst of headcount reductions the Department prioritised redeployment in order to avoid compulsory redundancy.
Jobs not Overtime
While PCS nationally are currently in talks with the Cabinet Office, the current DWP Workforce Management Policy states where employees are surplus, or to prevent them from being declared surplus, managers must consider, amongst other things “reducing or eliminating overtime”.
With the announcements contained within the DWP 3 Year Business Plan that a further 12,000 whole-time equivalent posts are to be cut by 2011, PCS is demanding that the institutional overtime working across all business units has to be halted.
Play your part. Support the overtime ban
You can play your part in halting the overtime culture prevalent in many parts of DWP by continuing to support the overtime ban which is in place until 31 March.
The release of these figures makes all the more reason why an overtime ban should be supported.
Overtime costs jobs!
