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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Aubrey Allegretti

MPs bullying and humiliating staff, Speaker’s inquiry told

MPs in the House of Commons.
Under current rules MPs directly employ their staff, allowing them to set pay, review performance and dictate hiring and firing. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/AFP/Getty Images

MPs’ staff report being undermined, humiliated and shouted at in public, having doors slammed in the office and bullied for asking for a pay rise in anonymised evidence given to an inquiry by the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Two unions, Unite and the GMB, said the current system for supporting those who work for MPs was not adequate in submissions to the Speaker’s conference on employment of members’ staff.

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