Property transactions face potential new delays after the Land Registry and the Registers of Scotland were among the 125 government departments to vote for strike action this week amidst ongoing disputes over pay, pensions, jobs, and redundancy terms.
Strikes are set to begin next month and could last until mid-2023, with Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which has coordinated the action, warning of a “prolonged programme of industrial action into every corner of public life” should ministers fail to meet their demands before the end of next week.
The current proposal of an average pay rise of 2% fails to match the 10% pay increase demanded by PCS.
The PCS general secretary urged the public to support the move.
Serwotka said: “The public themselves are going through a massive cost of living squeeze, worried about paying their mortgages and paying their rents and are therefore instinctively sympathetic to people who are clearly getting a raw deal.
“It’s clear that if you don’t have 100,000 workers on strike on one day, but you have a million, it makes a different political pressure on the government that is harder for them to ignore.”
A government spokesperson commented: “The public sector pay awards are a careful balance between delivering value for money for the taxpayer and recognising the importance of public sector workers.
“As the public would expect, we have plans in place to keep essential services running and minimise any potential disruption if strikes do go ahead.”
Contrast the role of the conveyancer over the last 3 years keeping the property market moving.
Told to work from home while Boris then created massive demand by giving the country a stamp duty holiday – who would do that!?!
Each conveyancer then had three times the usual clients – too much demand nationwide for the available lawyers – so everything went slower, and with 120+ clients each to make sure not a single career ending legal mistake took place.
And add to that:
1. probably half the clients felt covid did not apply to their own conveyancers – sure, their own employers, shops and restaurants, but not to ltheir conveyancers !?!?
2. conveyancers’ own families constantly pressuring them to stop doing so much to keep the public moving and to just walk away – that sort of pressure was never ever expected and a real eye opener
Yet….we got the job done, and we carry on. It’s what we do.
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“Each conveyancer then had three times the usual clients – too much demand nationwide for the available lawyers – so everything went slower, and with 120+ clients each to make sure not a single career ending legal mistake took place.
If you have too many clients do not take any more on
Career ending mistake – conveyancing is an admin job fgs
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Please read things more carefully as the answer was in the comment about the 120+ clients.
Sure the last three years has seen a record fee generation for conveyancers and thus their salaries and bonuses but…..
Career ending – no firm will employ someone who has had mistakes/claims (e.g a payout to a buyer because no building regulations consent was overlooked, or a missing right of way or a covenant on the land not allowing what the buyer wants to do….the list is ever increasing). Highest area of insurance payouts to the public.
And EGIL – ‘lunch’ – not for 3 years. Too busy getting people into houses. Give it a go!
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Wow, I shed a tear for you! Didn’t mention that you couldn’t take the full lunch hour and maybe had to work past 16:30 🙂
You will soon be wishing for the 120 + clients.
(I am playing the worlds smallest violin)
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What impact does this have for transactions nearing Exchange/completion in December?
Will completion be delayed?
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Anyone not going on strike?
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Strike unfortunately not going on Strike
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