LOCAL GOVERNMENT PAY DEAL

 
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You will be aware that whilst UNISON concluded our ballot on pay on the 31st January 2019, with members voting in record numbers to accept the offer, we have been awaiting the outcome of the two other SJC trade unions internal consultations.

The GMB ballot has now also delivered a vote to accept the offer.  The Unite ballot delivered a rejection of the offer.

It was therefore by majority vote on the trade union side at the SJC meeting today the offer was accepted.   

The SJC Circular has now been issued to Councils and is attached for your information.

COSLA have written to all councils asking them to process payments.  They anticipate that most will be able to implement in March salaries – we have asked for details of which councils will not be able to make this implementation timescale and will communicate those details as soon as we have them.

We know that this has been a long process and thank all members for their understanding.

Thank you too for all your work during this campaign – it has been your engagement, the campaigning in your workplaces and your lobbying efforts that has meant that by our collective efforts we have secured the best pay deal in local government in a decade. 

We know there is more to do and many more issues to tackle in Local Government so we need to maintain that momentum to achieve change in those too.  

Best wishes,

Johanna

Johanna Baxter

Head of Local Government Scotland (Bargaining)

 

Local government pay ballot.

91% of you voted, and in record numbers, to accept the employers offer.   We communicated that to the employer as soon as the ballot concluded.

Since then we have been waiting on the outcome of the two other Scottish Joint Council (SJC) trade unions internal consultations.  The GMB ballot has now also delivered a vote to accept the offer.  The Unite ballot delivered a rejection of the offer.

It was therefore by majority vote on the trade union side at the SJC meeting last Friday, 1 March 2019, that the offer was accepted.

Remember the key elements of the deal are:
·                     2018/19 – an increase of 3.5 per cent for everyone earning up to £80,000 (for those earning above this a flat rate of £1600 will apply.)

·                     2019/20 – an increase of 3 per cent.

·                     2020/21 – an increase of 3 per cent.

·                     Allowances to be up-rated by the same percentage increases above. 

·                     In each of these three years the Scottish Local Government Living Wage will rise by the percentage uplift referred to above.

·                     Full consolidation of the Living Wage, with Councils aiming to achieve this by March 2021.  In exceptional circumstances, and where agreed with the Joint Trade Unions, an extension to this can be agreed, which will incorporate a firm commitment of a final implementation date for consolidation of 2022.

·                     Reaffirmation of COSLA’s policy statement on pay parity across the Local Government workforce.

·                     A commitment to re-open negotiations with the Joint Trade Unions in the event of another Local Government bargaining group’s total pay offer value being revised such that it becomes greater than the sum agreed between COSLA Employers and the SJC Trade Unions for the SJC workforce for the period of the agreement.

Th
e award for 2018 will be backdated to the 1 April 2018 application date.
COSLA will now write to all councils asking them to process payments.  The award for 2018 will be backdated to the 1 April 2018 application date.  COSLA anticipate that most councils will be able to implement the deal in March salaries – we have asked for details of which councils will not be able to make this implementation timescale and will communicate those details as soon as we have them.

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