PCS warning over job cuts
Thursday 21 February 2013
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EmailCivil Service union PCS warned the Department for Education today that it faces hundreds of unfair dismissal claims if it presses ahead with job cuts.
The union said up to 1,000 jobs were being cut despite senior managers denying they are in a "redundancy situation."
However the union's lawyers Thompson's said they were "mystified" by the department's claim that no redundancies were being made.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "To claim you can cut a quarter of your staff without making redundancies really does defy belief."
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