All Pay articles – Page 55
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HSJ Local
Taunton and Somerset staff urge board to abandon pay plans
WORKFORCE: More than 1,600 staff working at Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust have signed a petition calling on the board to pull out of the South West Pay, Terms and Conditions Consortium.
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NewsLib Dems vote against local pay
The Liberal Democrats have voted overwhelmingly to adopt a policy opposing local pay in the public sector, in a move expected to put new pressure on employers considering breaking away from national deals.
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NewsBurstow admits to budget cuts
Former health minister Paul Burstow has admitted there were cuts to mental health services under his watch at the Department of Health.
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NewsUnions issue ultimatum over ‘pay cartel’
Unions have threatened to walk away from national talks on changes to pay and terms and conditions unless employers stop the South West “pay cartel”.
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NewsRegional pay plans short-sighted - BMA
A group of NHS trusts has been accused of making “short-sighted” plans to introduce regional pay and conditions which would “undermine the national ethos of the NHS”.
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NewsUnison in warning over regional pay
Health workers believe that plans to introduce regional pay and conditions would have a “devastating” impact on their lives, according to a report.
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CommentUnions are part of the solution
It’s easy to get drawn into the blame game when it comes to relations with unions
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NewsMiliband tells unions not to strike
Labour leader Ed Miliband has told union leaders that their members and the public did not want strikes, amid the growing prospect of industrial action against the government’s austerity measures.
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NewsNew tax rules 'could spark backlash'
New rules on employing interim managers in the NHS risk sparking a backlash from temporary managers who could look elsewhere for work, HSJ has been told.
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NewsSouth West pay consortium chief predicts other regions will copy model
The man leading the South West Pay, Terms and Conditions Consortium has revealed representatives of other NHS regions have approached him for advice on setting up similar groups to drive down workforce costs.
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NewsCall to scrap regional pay 'to rescue economy'
Scrapping national pay bargaining in the public sector would save more than £6 billion a year that should be used to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, an influential think-tank has urged.
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NewsRegional pay consortium claims it can save 6,000 jobs
More than 6,000 NHS “jobs” in the South West could be saved if major changes go ahead to staff pay, and terms and conditions, it has been claimed.
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NewsNicholson clamps down on interim managers' pay
NHS trusts have been ordered to stop paying interim senior executives off-payroll in a bid by the Department of Health to tackle possible tax avoidance.
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HSJ Local
Chelsea and Westminster predicts pay inflation will cost an extra £3.4m next year
FINANCE:The central London acute provider Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust “anticipates” annual payawards of no more than 1 per cent in 2013-14 and 2014-15.
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NewsPension funds to bankroll £298m hospital in finance first
Two pension funds have offered to finance a foundation trust’s new hospital in what could emerge as an alternative to conventional sources of private capital.
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NewsNHS Leeds loses holiday payment test tribunal
Appeal judges have spelled out the law on when a worker is entitled to payment in lieu of annual leave not taken because of long-term absence from their job through sickness.
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NewsRegional pay would threaten £10bn loss to economy
The economy could lose almost £10bn if the government presses ahead with controversial plans to introduce regional pay in the public sector, according to a new report.
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NewsSW pay consortium to press ahead with Agenda for Change plans
A consortium of 19 NHS trusts in the South West has met for the first time and agreed to press ahead with plans to break away from Agenda for Change.
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NewsAgenda for Change proposals revealed
Senior staff could be moved out of the Agenda for Change pay framework under proposals devised by NHS Employers, it has emerged.