« TRADE UNION RESPONSE TO TRUST CONSULTATION | Main | JOB TITLES: PAY BANDS MAY 2008 »
May 20, 2008
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY: INCREMENTS - MODEL LETTER
We ask all members to consider sending this model letter to the HPA board chair. HPA have offered no support regarding the payment of increments.
Mr Mike Fisher
Board Chair
Hampshire Probation Service
Middle Brook Street
Winchester
SO23 8DQ
Dear Mr. Fisher,
Non-Payment of Increments and doing more for less.
I am writing to express concern that I feel personally let down by Hampshire Probation Board in that it has failed to honour its contractual agreement to pay my annual increment this year. This at a time when Hampshire Probation Board are expecting even more from their staff, particularly those that work in the ‘frontline’ of service delivery and who are already under tremendous workload pressure.
Perhaps you would be so kind as to explain why I should put in even more for HPA when HPA treats its staff in such a shabby fashion. I understand that the application of 3% incremental progression on an annual basis dates back to the 1960’s and has not been varied except by mutual agreement. The system of staff progression through salary scales I believe has also been in operation since 1926. I am wondering why therefore you have taken the unusual step of withholding normal incremental progression until the settlement of this years pay negotiations?
I understand that at no stage during the three years of the negotiations leading up to the 2005 Pay and Modernisation Agreement did the Employers ever state or imply that the payments of increments from 1st April 2008 would be held back. Why has Hampshire Probation Board in effect endorsed the decision not to pay when it has the option to do the right thing and pay up?
I feel upon reading my payslip betrayed and deflated at the prospect of a net reduction in my salary taking into account increased pension payments and rises in the cost of living. You have broken an agreement which I feel is a very serious matter indeed and deserving of a full explanation of your reasons.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Posted by Hampshire at May 20, 2008 06:25 PM