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June 29, 2008
MORE THREATS TO PAY
On the 24th June Napo representatives met with the chief officer and the director of human resources to discuss the implementation of the ECU agreement which only came into force a matter of months ago.
At the meeting the chief officer stated that because of budget issues he was going to introduce ‘proposals’ concerning travel allowances, including car parking, that if implemented would mean that a proportion of staff will lose money. He said that this would have to happen if redundancies over the next three years were to be avoided.
It was a similar message when he last proposed changes to travel allowances. On that occasion there was a substantial budget surplus carried over into the next financial year.
Of course, with any spending there is an issue of priorities and this organisation, for example, has seen fit to recently spend our money on consultants to train managers, despite having its own training department. It would appear that this is deemed more important than the take home pay of staff. (We will find out and let you know how much has been paid to Ad Esse.)
Napo will resist any plans that could result in staff losing money, but it could mean, depending on the details of the proposals, some form of collective action.
We send this note to advise members that once we receive details we will call an emergency branch meeting.
Posted by Hampshire at June 29, 2008 02:16 PM