Civil Service Mileage Rate

Hopefully they’ll be increased as any tax free income is very welcome

Because the mileage is in the course of their duties- this is what their salary is to cover.

They're already well paid, often overpaid, and the taxpayer is already overburdened so the least they could is cover this expense

To those benefitting from the PS gravy train, yes.

"Turned on a sixpence" to being at home on full pay whether doing all, some or no work.

"Contract Tracing" was a euphemism for being at home with a job that cannot be done from home doing no work but on full pay. The numbers in this situation were legion. The passport office, museum, library staff to name but a few.

Nobody in the public sector was made redundant or put on the PUP despite swathes of them being effectively unemployed.

Then there were those in the health service who refused to go to work and "expose" themselves to infection and were at home on full pay for over 18 months.

The good thing about poor customer service in the private sector is that the consumer can go elsewhere and eventually they have to improve their customer service or go bust. In the public sector there's no accountability and the staff are unsackable so if a complaint is made either nothing is done or the public servant gets promotion.

"Public Servants dismissed all the time"..Haha you should be in the propaganda industry.

"Good recruitment and management" ..union stranglehold you mean.

If the public sector was a business it would have gone bust decades ago due to its inefficiency alone.

And yes, I have thought this through but I'd prefer to be ignorant of how the public service works.

I'd prefer not to know how the PS works but know all too well unfortunately.

Ah that old chestnut of "making up vague allegations, with absolutely no backup detail". The standard riposte from every defensive public servant while they know than anyone not employed in the public sector could not possibly be expected to produce documentary evidence". Is that line of defence in the union manual?

Re social protection payments admin, they were just doing their job unlike many others who effectively had over a year off on full pay.

Same goes health service employees-just doing the job they're paid to do, at best, and many were at a loose end making tiktok videos due to the pandemic that never happened and all elective surgery being cancelled. I had personal experience of people who were admitted to various hospitals for non-elective reasons and they or I had never seen any hospital as quiet with so many staff with little to do.

None of this suits the public "servant" narrative so is met with perpetual denial and defensiveness but don't worry, whether you're busy or not, competent or not, your job is safe.