For the last few months, a team from the PCS NEC have been working with the DVLA Swansea branch to enable them to resolve a serious health and safety dispute that has arisen during the course of the pandemic.

Despite initially taking a sensible approach during the first lockdown and ensuring that the bare minimum of workers remained on site, by the middle of 2020, DVLA management had bought into Boris Johnson’s mantra that everything would soon be back to normal and they started a rapid escalation of returning staff to being physically on site.