Department for Transport: Trade Unions
(asked on 8th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March to Question 232553 on Department for Transport: Trade Unions, how many induction meetings for new entrants were held in his Department in 2018; in how many of those meetings were trades unions (a) invited to make and (b) excluded from making a presentation; and how many staff attended those meetings.
Business Area | Number of induction meetings** | Number of staff that attended the induction meetings | Number of induction meetings at which the trade unions were invited to make a presentation at | Number of induction meetings at which the trade unions were excluded from making a presentation at |
Department for Transport (central department) | 12 | 540* | N/A | N/A |
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 15 | 366 | 15 | 0 |
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency | 27 | 260 | 27 | 0 |
Maritime and Coastguard Agency | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
Vehicle Certification Agency | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
*Estimate only based on capacity of courses **’Induction meetings’ refer to formal sessions for groups of new entrants, and not any other meeting that may form part of an individual induction plan | ||||
DfTc and VCA are in discussions with the trade union side about how to incorporate the trade union into the induction process. The induction materials given to new staff include information about joining a trade union.