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NewsTUC warns over employment rights plans
The employment rights of millions of workers will be hit under government plans to extend the qualifying period for protection against unfair dismissal, the TUC has warned.
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NewsMilton backs increments freeze deal amid congress heckles
Health minister Anne Milton drew heckles at the Royal College of Nursing congress after insisting a national pay increments freeze rejected by the union would remain on the table at local level.
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NewsReforms could be 'biggest disaster in history' of NHS
The Royal College of Nursing’s chief executive has insisted industrial action must remain an option for nurses and warned that the health reforms could become the “biggest disaster in the history of our public services”.
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Front line 'must be NHS priority'
Health minister Simon Burns has insisted that the NHS must make frontline services a “priority” as new figures were released by a union showing clinical staff accounting for half of planned job losses in the health service.
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NewsTrusts in royal wedding pay row
More than 100 trusts in England are refusing to give enhanced pay rates to staff who work on the day of the royal wedding later this month, union leaders have complained.
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NewsOsborne backs Hutton on pensions but promises 'no cherry picking'
Chancellor George Osborne has accepted Lord Hutton’s recommendations on public sector pensions as a “basis for consultation” with unions.
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Unison hits out at health pay freeze
The government has come under attack after confirmation that the pay of more than a million health workers is going to be frozen for two years.
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NewsConfed lobbies for working time directive changes
European working time regulations must change to improve care and reduce costs for acute providers, according to the NHS Confederation.
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NewsPublic sector workers unhappy, survey reveals
More than half of public sector workers would consider taking industrial action, according to a study released as activists prepare for an anti-cuts protest in London.
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NewsPerformance linked pay for managers labelled a 'distraction'
Linking the stay of senior staff to national objectives would be an “unhelpful distraction”, according to the NHS managers’ union.
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NewsFT severance payouts to come under scrutiny
The NHS chief executive has promised MPs to do all he can to provide details of severance payouts made by foundation trusts.
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NewsManagers back calls for top earners to pay more towards pensions
The vast majority of managers responding to a snap online HSJ survey think higher earners should pay more towards their NHS pensions.
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NewsPublic sector executives face performance reviewed pay
Executives in the public sector should have 10 per cent of their pay held back and awarded only through good performance at the end of the year, under “radical” proposals by a government-commissioned report.
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NewsGMS agreement to reward GPs for saving money
Nearly a tenth of practices’ performance related pay could be linked to the rationing of NHS resources from April under an agreement between GPs and NHS Employers.
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NewsHutton proposes pension overhaul
Former Labour cabinet minister Lord Hutton has suggested that those who work for the NHS, teachers and police should receive pensions based on their average salary throughout their career, rather than ones based on their pay immediately before they retire.
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NewsUnions issue strike warning over pension reform
The government has been warned that implementing radical changes to public sector pensions could “light the blue touch paper” for strikes by millions of workers.
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HSJ KnowledgeDealing fairly with redundancy in merging PCTs
Primary care trusts looking to pool resources and skills to protect services ahead of their abolishment in 2013 can mean difficult redundancy decisions have to be taken. Weightmans LLP employment associate Jessica Baden-Daintree looks at five key things employers need to do to avoid failure to consult and unfair dismissal ...
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News'Introspective' NHS fearful of change
The NHS has an “introspective, monopolistic culture” in which staff are unwilling “to accept the inevitability of change”, according to a former Labour minister who was given a key public spending reform role by the coalition government.
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NewsTrusts agree local deals for royal wedding holiday
At least five trusts have reached agreement with local unions not to pay staff extra for working on the royal wedding Bank Holiday.
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NewsGPs demand hike in pay
GPs in Scotland deserve a pay increase of more than 20 per cent to bring them parity with the UK, according to doctors in north east Scotland.