Civil Service to Defy Ministers ; Showdown Looms Over Jobs Switch to Provinces

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MINISTERS are on a collision course with public sector unions over plans to move more than 27,000 Civil Service jobs out of London by 2020.

They want to revive rarely used rules to force some public employees to transfer to different parts of the country rather than be given big payoffs. And Ministers want the power to order staff working in one part of Whitehall who do not wish to relocate, to move to another part of the public sector as an alternative to redundancy.

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Civil Service to Defy Ministers ; Showdown Looms Over Jobs Switch to Provinces

They believe that jobs transferred to the provinces should attract the rates of pay prevailing outside Lon...

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