Government considers scrapping parity rule for IT outsourcers

From Computing

The government is considering scrapping a rule that guarantees workers at outsourcing firms similar working conditions to their equivalent co-workers in the public sector.

It may abolish an informal code that offers private sector workers on public sector contracts "no less favourable terms" to their in-house colleagues before IT was outsourced, according to news agency Reuters.

The code was intended to stop the formation of a two-tier workforce, where some staff enjoy much better pay and conditions than colleagues doing exactly the same jobs. The move is expected to cause uproar from trade unions. Read more at Computing

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