We have today received, from the LAS management, the definitive calculations of how the proposed annual leave arrangements would affect the number of leave spaces available. Please contact your Senior Sector rep for details of your group and station numbers and to ensure your feedback is noted for the proposal. We are planning to meet […]
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The NHS Staff Council has finalised a package to support implementation of the new system for pay progression, in line with the provisions in the England Framework Agreement on pay. The package covers England, with Cymru/Wales currently finalising details for pay progression implementation under the similar provisions contained in their Framework Agreement. The package can […]
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Congratulations to London Ambulance Service branch’s Battersea station who are the overall winners of our Grovember branch noticeboards competition. We were also shortlisted for our notice board at Romford Ambulance Station. What a fantastic achievement for our branch and well done to our reps who regularly update the boards across the service helping to keep […]
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The LAS management have written to us to propose a change in the annual leave arrangements for operational staff. Although we have had some discussion with the service to explore these arrangements over quite a protracted timeframe, it was disappointing to us to have received a formal proposal at 1650 on a Friday evening. Nevertheless, […]
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LAS UNISON first wrote to the LAS management on 22nd March 2017 to request EMT4’s pay, at that time being capped to spine point 20 on band 5, have said cap removed and are enabled to move through to the top of band 5. The LAS management have now written to us, after repeated discussions […]
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Today, we have written to the LAS management to raise two issues ahead of the next Staff Council meeting where we hope to discuss them further. At the last LAS UNISON Branch Committee meeting in December our Branch Chairperson made two proposals that the committee agreed. The first being that we, as a branch, gain […]
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As you may know the consultation period for HCPC’s proposed rise in registrant fees closed on the 14th December. UNISON submitted the attached response before this time stating our members do not support the rise and the reasons for this. “UNISON is uniquely placed to respond to this survey. We represent members in all 16 […]
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It has recently come to our attention that there are plans to move to a single national fleet model. Just to be clear, the proposed changes, subject to the consultation outcome, would come into force for any new ambulance purchased from 1 April 2019. To summarise – NHS Improvement are consulting over the standard specification […]
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