The previous Tory government announced changes to workplace visa rules to reduce immigration. These rules set new thresholds on the minimum salary and pay per hour required for an individual to continue employment on their workplace visas. The huge increase to the income threshold leaves many PCS members unable to work in DWP. All members graded EO and below outside inner London do not meet this new threshold and will be forced to make difficult and distressing decisions regarding their employment and lives in the UK. This is causing extreme worry about their own and their families’ future and serious trauma and upheaval which is wholly unnecessary.
This situation not only demonstrates how low pay in the DWP is impacting members and the wider economy but clearly shows that the changes made to the immigration rules were not fit for purpose.
PCS stands committed to supporting our members’ right to remain in work and are demanding solutions are put in place to support both employees to stay in work and the employer in retaining staff, to again support members that will have to pick up the slack when hundreds of workers will be jettisoned from the workplace.
Please take a few minutes to write to your MP bringing these important issues to their attention.
