BCP Council pay structure to be unified six years after merger
Staff facing a pay cut will have their salary protected at current levels for a further 18 months, the council said.The ballots held in June resulted in 83% of UNISON members and 77% of GMB members accepting the offer.BCP's resources and governance councillor, Jeff Hanna, said: "Currently, we still have staff being paid at several different rates for doing the same job and that cannot be acceptable."It has been a significant source of anxiety and concern for our workforce and it has understandably affected staff morale."I firmly believe this is the best offer we could have made to our staff considering the limitations on the council's budget, and it would allow us to achieve the fairness and equality in our pay and grading structure that has always been our primary aim."
The new structure will cost the authority a further £1.7m, which will require formal approval.A report to cabinet and the council will set out savings to meet the additional costs.GMB's southern region senior organiser Nick Day said it had been a "long process", adding: "GMB's members were are at the forefront of rejecting these proposals the first time around, and then after two more subsequent offers. "GMB was the only union to reject and we have therefore secured and negotiated vastly improved terms that satisfy the majority of our members' concerns."
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