Home Office and Border Force staff could go on strike over the government’s Rwanda plan
The Public and Commercial Services union that represents workers at the Home Office and Border Force, has said 'demoralised' staff face being forced to break the law - and they could explore industrial action.The PCS’s head of bargaining, Paul O’Connor, told the Independent: “There will be no stomach amongst our members for implementing the Rwanda deal and Illegal Migration Bill, and they will inevitably come to their trade union to see if there is recourse to stop it happening.
The comprehensive audit of the system praised Home Office staff for their work under difficult conditions, but said that corners were being cut and workloads were unsustainable. "Registration and screening records were often incomplete, inaccurate, or unreliable, and laws and published policies were not complied with."
The UNHCR said rules to make an individual's asylum claim "inadmissible" if they came through a safe third country and the plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda made the reliability and fairness of the screening system more important.
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