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The Communications Workers Union<\/a> (CWU) has maintained its threat of strike action against broadband and mobile giant BT<\/a> after the operator concluded their consultation on changes to redundancy terms, which among other things will see the operator slash redundancy payments in half (from 24 months to 12).<\/p>\n

By all accounts the BT<\/a> Group has had a rough few years\u2019 and its share price has collapsed from nearly 500p in 2015 to 121p today. The operator, which also needs to find \u00a312bn to invest into a national rollout of gigabit-capable  “full fibre<\/em>” (FTTP<\/a>) broadband technology (here<\/a>), is thus currently busy restructuring itself and cutting jobs.<\/p>\n

Tensions around this began to peak a few months ago after BT<\/a> announced their intention to re-organise around a smaller number of regional offices, which will mean the closure of some existing sites. The result is that some staff, mostly office workers, were left with having to choose between travelling long distances to a new place of work or taking redundancy.<\/p>\n

At present many of their longer-serving workers would still be entitled to a maximum of up to 24 months redundancy pay (this is extremely generous in the modern climate), but toward the end of last week BT confirmed that, from 1st June 2020<\/strong>, it planned to slash this to 12 months.<\/p>\n

A number of BT’s staff contacted ISPreview.co.uk to highlight this and to point out that the company’s email appeared to indicate that the new terms had been discussed with the CWU<\/strong> and Prospect<\/strong>, which caused some of them to incorrectly assume that the deal had been agreed with those unions. In reality both unions continue to oppose BT’s changes and the CWU is mid-way through a consultative ballot on industrial action.<\/p>\n

Andy Kerr, CWU Deputy General Secretary, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Let me be absolutely clear to members who may been left confused by this somewhat opaque wording. The CWU has only been nominally consulted, and BT is imposing the new severance terms knowing we have rejected them.<\/p>\n

In the company’s so-called staff \u2018consultation\u2019 no fewer than 73% of respondents said they were dissatisfied with the proposed terms – yet BT is riding roughshod over those concerns and is demonstrably ignoring feedback from its own employees.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The CWU also goes on to highlight that one “particularly pernicious<\/em>” element of BT’s new terms is that anyone put “at risk<\/em>” of redundancy will “effectively be forced into accepting misleadingly named ‘voluntary redundancy terms’ as compulsory redundancy terms will no longer be enhanced, but will be the bare statutory minimum<\/em>.” The union claims this means BT will have the ability to state publicly that it is not making anyone compulsorily redundant, but those “not accepting voluntary redundancy without a murmur will be hugely financially penalised<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

A BT Group Spokesperson told ISPreview.co.uk:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“BT is going through a period of immense change and investment for the future. As the market continues to evolve and the needs of our customers change, we\u2019ll need the right skills and capabilities in the business. If we don\u2019t improve our productivity and efficiency, BT Group will fall behind in the highly competitive, highly regulated markets in which we operate.<\/p>\n

We also have a root and branch modernisation programme across the business that will create \u00a32bn of annualised savings by 2025 through digitising, automating and simplifying many of our systems and processes. This will result in a smaller number of people in the business in five years\u2019 time, largely by not filling roles as and when they become vacant, but we will prioritise providing retraining and reskilling, learning and redeployment opportunities where we can.<\/p>\n

For all colleagues, particularly those who do leave the business, we need a simple, consistent, competitive, and fair set of severance terms that apply equally to all UK colleagues. Today, that is not the case as we currently have at least seven different options. We\u2019ve consulted with colleagues and their unions, we\u2019ve listened to their feedback, before announcing a number of improvements, including improving the terms for voluntary paid leavers and making our enhanced redundancy terms equal for all colleagues. We\u2019ve added additional support for our frontline and part-time colleagues and removed the minimum qualifying period.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As we’ve said before, BT currently finds itself between a rock and a hard place, with few good options open to it. At the same time the idea of holding strike action at a major national broadband and phone provider, during the global COVID-19<\/strong> pandemic, seems likely to divide opinions.<\/p>\n

As it stands BT appear to be holding their course against pressure from the two unions and thus the prospect of a strike at the UK’s largest telecoms operator has not yet been averted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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