Meeting with Senior DCPU Unit 5 Management - Thurs 16th Oct 2008
The purpose of this circular is to provide an update from the meeting with Senior DCPU Unit 5 on Thursday 16th October 2008 to discuss the feedback from the members in Unit 5. Thanks to all the members who attended the meeting and gave their views.
We raised the details from the ballot including the results from the different rooms. Senior Management have taken these away and will be looking to improve communications to ensure that the situation on the ability to state availability and preference on times to work on the Turrets is as per the agreed joint statement. The issue of the length of shifts highlighted in some of the rooms was raised and the lack of flexibility.
We also re-emphasised the fact that it had been agreed that the two fifths of time to be spent on the Turrets had been withdrawn (this had been implemented in three of the above rooms). The employer advised that the clarification that the two fifths had been withdrawn had been e-mailed around all the Turrets AOs in the rooms concerned.
We also picked up some of the general issues picked up at the members’ meeting such as:
Were Helpline busy to the point that they need as much support? We were advised that Helpline are busy and that they deploy the Helpline support staff and other prior to utilising the Turreteers. (Frankly there just are not enough staff in the DCPU).
The GAD system is has not been functioning properly however they expect to get this resolved so that it does
They do keep statistics on how many hours people have worked on the Turrets for purposes of filling the slots however they indicated that this was not for PDS (Appraisal purposes) and they destroyed the details after use. We reiterated the point that if there wasn’t the availability to cover the slots then Helpline needed to be informed as there was not a treasure chest of staff to call upon.
The next step is that we will do a further walk round and obtain updated feedback and will then meet again with Senior DCPU Management.
