PAY UPDATE FROM UNISON NATIONAL OFFICE

 

We have received a number of enquiries about when the pay award will be implemented, so this is to bring you up to date with the current position.

Not all unions have yet reported back on their internal member consultation and the offer has yet to be formally ratified by the Pay Negotiating Council and the Staff Council. However, a large enough yes vote majority has now been reached from unions that wish to accept the offer.

It is planned that a Pay Circular will be issued in England by NHS Employers on the 16th or 17th October. Contact has been made with the main payroll providers and this date should be in good time to ensure that the new rates are implemented in November.

We have also sought assurances that the back pay, where owed, will be paid in December.

It appears that this is entirely in the hands of local NHS organisations and their ability to get information from their payroll departments to providers in good time for the calculations to be made and paid in December.

We will issue advice on this to branches when we send them the pay circular in mid October.