Press Release
Skilled crafts workers entitled to premium thanks to Unite
9 September 2008
Unite (previously Amicus) has succeeded at the Tribunal on behalf of 25 members against Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust which failed to pay a premium which is part of nationally agreed terms and conditions. The premium was introduced following the implementation of the national collective agreement, known as Agenda for Change, as a way of recruiting and retaining skilled crafts workers and technicians.
The Tribunal has confirmed that the 25 members are entitled to a recruitment and retention premium that is worth over £3,000 per year. The members will also receive back pay in relation to the premium which should have been paid to them since 1 October 2004, or the date they commenced employment with the Trust, if later.
Unite Assistant General Secretary, Gail Cartmail, said: “It is a welcome decision and consistent with other Tribunal cases Unite has backed. The fact that it has been necessary for our members to pursue this and other claims is a disgraceful waste of resources on the part of the few NHS employers who have stubbornly refused to honor the terms of the national agreement. I am proud of our members and their workplace representatives who have stood firm in defense of the national agreement".
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