Transport Civil Servants Working Four-Day Week up a Quarter Under Labour – Guido Fawkes

Transport Civil Servants Working Four-Day Week up a Quarter Under Labour

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Across the pond the new administration is cutting half of all staff at the US Department of Education. With 4,133 staff and a budget of £188 billion, around 2,183 are being shown the door. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said yesterday the move would “better serve students, parents, educators, and taxpayers.” Musk’s DOGE is cutting jobs throughout federal departments. Back in Westminster it’s the opposite picture…

Civil servants at the Department for Transport are increasingly signing on to compressed hours four-day week working arrangements. At the time of the election last year the number on a four-day week was 131. Eight months into a Labour government that’s gone up by a quarter to 178. No surprise that transport staff want to avoid the commute…

In the large majority of departments the number of compressed-hours workers isn’t even tracked centrally. As DBT explains: “Staff are also not mandated, in most cases, to record their flexible working arrangements on our central HR Management system as this is an agreement made with their line manager directly.” No accountability…

Civil Service union PCS is pushing for a four-day week across government as hundreds of staff also work from abroad. Labour insists reducing working hours in four day weeks instead of compressing them “is not government policy or something we are considering.” For an example of the correct approach have a look at Washington DC…