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The TUC are currently finalising plans for the Lobby of Parliament and evening mass rally on Wednesday 2^nd November 2022. Westminster Central Hall is booked as the base for the day and evening.

On a gloriously sunny August bank holiday Saturday afternoon I was proud to join dozens of colleagues from prisons and Probation Services marching in the main parade at Manchester Pride.

Future parliamentary business from Monday 17 October 2022

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.