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To: The Foreign Secretary

Fair Pay for British Council Workers

PCS members feel betrayed that the government has chosen to deny British Council staff any sort of cost of living pay increase in 2020.

This is despite the horrendous year of hardship that employees had to work through and despite the 2020 pay award being directly linked to performance in the previous year, 2019.

PCS is imploring Dominic Raab to listen to reason, and allow staff working for the British Council fair pay and equal treatment.

Why is this important?

Following a year when the British Council faced the largest crisis in the organisation since its inception, Dominic Raab, as the Secretary of State for the parent department (the FCDO), waited until December to refuse additional funding to give staff any sort of pay increase or performance payment in 2020.

The British Council is the only government body not to receive a pay award for 2019/2020. Although the British Council has always been expected to toe the line of the Civil Service pay policy in every year prior to 2020, it would seem that it conveniently no longer applies to them.

So far the Foreign Secretary has refused to respond to correspondence from PCS requesting that additional finances are provided to the Council.

We are asking you to sign this petition to call on the government to listen to its employees, and to treat British Council workers fairly with a pay award for 2020.

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