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It's lost a higher percentage of employee tribunals than any other employer since 2016.
These are the sh*** tasked with ensuring some of the most disadvantaged people in the country get financial help. Apart from the abysmal record they have on that, they treat their own staff with medical problems just as poorly.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51756783
It's exposed in a show on BBC1 tonight at 8.30pm. The Million Pound Disability Payout.
Some truly harrowing stories.
Though the actual numbers of cases involved was much smaller than I expected it to be from the headlines, especially given the size of DWP. Lost 17 cases in 3 years.
Tough one. I've seen civil servants play the disability card and get away with all sorts, always easy to then have a crackdown and go too far the other way.
Proper look at the report - lost 17 out of 134 cases over 3 years. Given issues of employment law and medical diagnosis, losing 6 a year, while awful for the staff involved, isn't a huge disaster for the 84,000 staff they have (based on 2016 figures on Google)
Plenty of reasons to highlight problems at DWP, this probably isn't the key public interest story a lazy journalist thinks it is
Shocked that they are losing cases or shocked that they are discriminating? Those two are not the same!
I suspect comparison to “other employers” is not necessarily a good metric - my guess is Civil Service will be less inclined to settle out of court, or even use compromise agreements to get rid of people than Public Sector - it doesn’t look like a good use of public funds. It’s a heavily unionized workforce too so even more likely people take action rather than shrug and move on. Add to that the size of the organisation, and what are considered “reasonable adjustments” for DWP will be different from Joe’s cafe with three staff.
It's hardly a surprise that an organisation so contemptuous of human suffering should treat its employees no better than its client group.
Otherwise known as work with arseholes and you'll be kneedeep in shit.
Worth bearing in mind that people in the organisation don't make the rules. Insulting the messenger is missing the point, and failing to hold those truly responsible to account
The "I was only obeying orders" excuse has been no excuse for a long time.
Quite a lot of us in the civil service are unhappy at things we have to implement, by both parties, over many years. But very few of us can afford to quit on a point of principle. I expect it's one of the big elephants in the room when it comes to mental health issues