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POA Circular 70/2022 promulgated the timetable for the above election.

Future parliamentary business from Monday 10 October 2022 

Circular 073/2022 provided an update on the process of settling the compensation claims for members following the discriminatory changes made to the civil service and NHS pension schemes in 2015.

If you still pay tax, even if it’s just on your pension, there’s a fairly high chance you may have paid too much.

POA is fighting for 12 members of the NTRG in defence of their Specialist Allowance payment. Despite the fact that the payment had been made for years to those in closed grades, the employer turned that on its head and decided that in fact it had all been a big mistake. From paying without objection it decided not only that the payments should never have been made, but the payments made to date should be recovered from the members.

The POA are in disbelief that a rogue Deputy Governor at an establishment in HMPPS have selected a prisoner as part of an interview board to determine the suitability of prison officers for a particular unit within that prison and ignored a national official of the POA to pull back from this ridiculous position.

Could Scotland’s prison officers be about to make use of their right to strike for the first time, over pay? The strength of feeling from the pay ballot would suggest so

Please find attached NEC minutes for the 28th September 2022 for your information.

Further to POA Circular 70/2022 the closing date for receipt of branch nominations was Monday 10th October 2022.

Gavin Rowe reports on the LGBT+ conference which took place on 30th June/1st July 2022

Representing over 30,000 Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers, the POA is the largest UK Union in this sector, able to trace its roots back more than 100 years.