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Coincidence? Striking workers and sacking civil servants
Plans to make it easier to sack under-performing civil servants are set to be unveiled.
The plan, part of a wider package of reforms, could see the bottom 10% of staff fired after a year if they fail to make improvements.
Francis Maude: Under-achieving civil servants ‘could be sacked’
Low-paid workers who take strike action will no longer have their wages topped up by the state, ministers say.
Workers on up to £13,000 a year can currently claim working tax credits to top up their income even when they take part in industrial action.
But from next year there will be no increase in benefits if a worker’s income drops due to strike action.