Minister Rejects Call for Pay Cut for Stay-at-Home Civil Servants

A woman using a laptop on a dining room table set up as a remote office to work from home, in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2020. Joe Giddens/PA

A call for civil servants who refuse to return to their desks in Whitehall to have their pay cut has been rejected by a Cabinet minister.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said he would like to see officials in his department going into the office two or three days a week.