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February 14, 2008
INCREMENTS - EMPLOYERS RENEGE
You should have expected to receive increments in your pay packet from the 1st April, but you won't, because the employers have decided not to pay increments, even though they accept that there is a contractual right to increments from 1st April. This is what was meant to happen as a result of the last pay agreement that Napo members voted to approve:
‘Once staff have been placed within a pay band, each year, on 1 April, they will move up the pay scale through incremental points within the band, until they reach the band maximum.’
What they are now saying is that increments must form part of this years pay negotiations. Apparently the employers nationally consulted with all the probation areas.
The Branch has written to Barrie Crook, chief officer, seeking an answer to the following question:
Is Hampshire Probation Area going to ensure that the current agreement on incremental progression is honoured with effect from 1 April 2008?
This is your money - it's your contractual right.
In the meantime, like episodes from Life on Mars, you will be regaled with briefings about mission statements, visions and values in the dash for trust status – but there will not be mention of pay or the erosion of your terms and conditions. In the real world it's your bank statement, not mission statement, that's makes the difference. We need to make pay 'on message', defend our terms and conditions and not be distracted by corporate visionaries promising a better future...
In April, as a result of the pension changes, on average about £16 to £20 more will be taken in deductions from your pay packets. That’s what would be called a lose-lose situation. There will be more information available in early March when Napo's NEC next meets.
Posted by Hampshire at February 14, 2008 06:14 PM