Another example of a Govt Minister (Gove) doing as they please

My Union PCS has launched this petition about fair pay. Not posted this to debate the actual content but again we see Govt putting 2 fingers up to democracy.

Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Gove has been called on to explain why his department has failed to respond to the PCS petition for fair pay for UK government workers more than 11 weeks after a response was first requested.

All petitions lodged on the UK parliament and government petition website require a response from government once they reach 10,000 signatures, which our petition did 85 days ago. The standards for responding to e-petitions agreed between the petitions committee and the leader of the House state the government response should be provided no later than 21 days. Once the petition, which has now passed 57,000 signatures, reaches 100,000 signatures it must be considered for a parliamentary debate.

Now MP Catherine McKinnell, chair of the petitions committee, has written to Gove to ask why, despite repeated requests, a response has not been forthcoming.

She wrote yesterday: “Despite repeated requests, the government’s response is now over eight weeks late. This is clearly not acceptable. Petitioners are entitled to a response from the government when their petition receives over 10,000 signatures, and this should be provided in a timely fashion.”

She called on him to provide the government’s response to our petition by tomorrow (16 October) so it can be considered at the next meeting of the petitions committee.

 

I'm a PCS rep mate, the cabinet office nowadays doesn't follow policy, procedure or the law. The union are forced weekly to go down the legal route.

 

I used to be Branch Vice-chair and Union Learning Rep but family commitments contributed to me being unable to put the time and commitment in that being a Union Rep deserves

 

I used to be a teaching rep for NASUWT, when he was (lack of) education secretary, he did the same with all the teaching unions, he totally ignored high court orders to produce doc and figures regarding teachers pensions.

Guess who was behind it all????

Demonic Cummings...

 

I had to step back from personal cases due to illness early this year. I was practically doing 3 days a week of them from August-January. Unreal the amount of mismanagement and unlawful activity going on in government departments. Every case was being taken to the a point of legal action. Then they'd withdraw and acquiesce to my demands. To get to that point though usually meant putting a member through loads of stress usually resulting in illness, it took hours out of my day.

 

Gove is the only Tory Cummings admires supposedly.