NHS PAY-ONE STEP AT A TIME

摘要

Following the implementation of the NHS pay deal in England, and with Wales recently voting to accept the deal, unions are continuing to work with employers in several areas. These include the removal of Band 1, sorting out pay for apprentices (including degree apprenticeships), a national framework for the buying and selling of annual leave, a new part of Agenda for Change to cover child bereavement leave and enhanced statutory parental leave, and -perhaps the largest part of ongoing work - a new national framework for pay progression. The new pay progression system is expected to be introduced in April 2019, and will replace the system that is so familiar - that of automatic annual progression to the top of the band. The time taken to get to the top will be shorter (or the same) for all bands, and there will be just two to three 'pay steps' in each band. That means that staff will stay for longer on each pay step, but will make a bigger financial jump when they step up.