Civil servants won’t swap working from home for more pay

CIVIL servants will not sacrifice working from home in return for an improved government pay offer, a union chief has said.

Mark Serwotka, general-secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, said working from home should not become a political matter as it was about finding the best way to deliver public services that works for employers and staff.

He said any new offer by the Government should be “money on the table without any strings.”

He added: “We’re open to talk to them to try to resolve a dispute but we’re not into selling any terms and conditions for money.”

Mr Serwotka warned that the union was prepared to take strike action “indefinitely” and would reballot its members in May to extend the sixmonth mandate for walk-outs.