Just days after furious CWU protests at Openreach’s plans to ‘trial’ an unagreed new role that undercuts current Ts&Cs and places a time-bomb under the job security of the existing workforce, the company has fired another salvo in its increasingly ill-disguised ‘race to the bottom’.

Yesterday (Tuesday) the company announced that another unagreed trial – one that was denounced by the CWU late last year  after  it emerged that management had reneged on a central element that could have defused the long-standing disagreement over Personal Travel  Time (PTT) – will be unilaterally rolled out across Service Delivery, starting next month.

Stripped of the PTT-banishing element, the  union now regards  the ‘My Team Incentive Pilot’  as nothing more than a blunt ‘incentivisation’ tool that introduces a dangerous form of performance related pay by the back door and risks turning back the clock to the darkest days of performance management.

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