Pay Claim 2009/10

3rd August 2009

Pay Award - Consultative Ballot

The employers side have made their offer (see below) - this is your chance to have your say.

You can download your ballot paper now.

Lancashire UNISON is mailing out a consultative ballot paper to all members to indicate if they are willing to accept or wish to reject the employers offer.

UNISON IS RECOMMENDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE OFFER

You can download your ballot paper below either in Word or PDF format:

Pay Consultation Ballot Paper 2009 – 2010 (16kb)

Pay Consultation Ballot Paper 2009 – 2010 (26kb)

Please return your completed ballot by no later than 12 noon on 7 August 2009 to:

Unison Branch Office,
Room A38,
County Hall,
Preston.
PR1 OLD

28th July 2009

2009 Pay Award - Employers make Final Offer

The Employers' side of the NJC have made an improved offer.

Pay
1.25% on SCPs 4 to 10 inclusive.
1.00% on SCPs 11 to 49 inclusive.

For Lancashire the offer would apply to employees graded up to scp 54.

Annual Leave
1 additional annual leave day on the basic Green Book entitlement(increase from 20 to 21 days in minimum annual leave for employees with less than five years’ service.)

Completion of a joint "redundancy avoidance" agreement by 1/12/09

The further increase in annual leave for 2010, the increase in the sleeping-in allowance and the review of parental entitlements included in our proposals were not included in the offer.

UNISON’s Head of Local Government, Heather Wakefield, said:

“We are pleased that the local government employers have come forward with an improved pay offer. While we believe that our members are worth more, we are pleased that the employers have realised that 0.5% was an insult. It is also vital that we have an agreement in place to protect jobs in the sector. This will help keep services running through the recession – when families and communities need them most.

“UNISON’s national committee and the NJC trade union side will meet next week to start the consultation on the offer."

27th April 2009

NJC Rejects Employers "Insulting" Pay Offer

Pay Claim Bulletin No.4 (46kb)

18th March 2009

Unison has submitted its claim for the 2009-2010 Pay award

Pay Claim Bulletin No.2 (1.28mb)