ER Informal

I went to the latest CSD District Employee Relations Informal Meeting last Thursday in Northampton.

These regular meetings are for a frank discussion with district management about what is happening in the district and for an exchange of information. I think that these are open and constructive on both sides in our district.

In order for us to represent you we need to know what is happening in all sites. Please let a PCS rep know if there are problems and we can discuss it with management.

We discussed Revised Service Hours, staffing levels and potential estates problems when all our staff are recruited. Both PCS and management welcome more staff to help deliver an increased service in times of increasing registers and both sides recognise that space is tight and that we need somewhere to sit to deliver that service.

This could be an ongoing issue so if there are any problems with space or the alterations work in your site please make management and PCS aware of the problems.

We also had a frank exchange about the pressure that members felt to reduce breaks due to the numbers of people to see. We may not have agreed over the causes but both management and PCS were committed to staff getting the breaks which they needed, and to try and manage workloads more effectively.

If you want a fuller report on our meetings with management (locally we also meet with BDC management) please leave a comment and I'll see what we can do.