17 2022 Pay Award
To receive an update on the 2022 pay award.
Minutes:
Paul Young, Assistant Director: HR & OD provided a verbal update on the 2022 Pay Award.
The current position was that this was the pay award due for April 2022,but was looking like it could be confirmed earlier than previous years.
The request from Trade Unions had been an increase of £2000 on each spinal column point along with a number of other claims, such a recognition payment for work during the pandemic, national agreement on family leave and pay and home working policies, increase in millage rates, updates to contracts on term only arrangements and an additional day annual leave.
The National Employers responded to the Unions claim back in July, with an increase on spinal column points of £1925 and an increase of 4.04% on all allowances, that would be backdated from April 2022, and from April 2023 an additional day of annual leave would be added to the annual leave entitlement.
The Trade Unions had received the National Employers offer and they have gone back to their membership to consult and determine whether the offer would be accepted. UNISON had confirmed that the offer had been accepted from their members, the ballot for GMB was still open and would close on the 21 October.
It was hoped that the Council would be in a position to grant the April 2022 pay award in the November 2022 pay.