Nearly 2,000 Foreign Office jobs ‘at risk’, says PCS union

Nearly 2,000 Foreign Office jobs ‘at risk’, says PCS union

Reduction in higher-level roles linked to government decision to cut foreign aid budget, says unionAlmost 2,000 civil servants at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office face the risk of redundancy, with the biggest union for government workers vowing to fight the cuts.The PCS union, which has about 200,000 members, said it had been told that 1,885 jobs at the second highest level, known as delegated grades, were “at risk”, in addition …