Apparently Aviva now pay 26 weeks if you’ve been with them for over two years, it doesn’t increase past that with service. Still very generous and not the norm. I don’t know anywhere that has anything like NHS unless they’re on a far smaller scale.
Does the fact that some people abuse a system mean that no one deserves a pay rise though?
fullfact.org
Do you think its doctors fault no one can get an appointment? Like they just sit with their feet up?
That's exactly what I think tbh. My doctor is never at the surgery. Telephone appointments galore where we are.
Just sharing my experience of people using “exceptional circumstances” to go off sick excessively. Any pay rise has to factor in the whole compensation package, there’d be more scope if these agendas were reformed but I doubt the unions would entertain negotiating on those at any point.Does the fact that some people abuse a system mean that no one deserves a pay rise though?
Sure things like that could be managed better, perhaps that could be part of the negotiation.
In real terms, the band 5 starting salary increased by 6.7% between 2017/18 and 2020/21. But since 2010/11, it has fallen by a total of 3.2%
Nurse pay up over the past few years but down on 2010 – Full Fact
Matt Hancock claimed nurse salaries had risen significantly in recent years. These increases don’t counterbalance falls in real terms pay over the past decade.
Do you all really think that's OK?! I'm honestly baffled
GPs aren’t striking its junior doctors ie hospital doctors. I have no power over appointments. Every week I’m asking managers to be booked more clinics but they don’t book them.
I don't get this. Why is the only option for nurses to leave and go into minimum wage jobs? Ive posted before Im ex-nurse & I make twice now what I did when i was a nurse and my current salary scales can progress infinitely higher.
That's disgusting.
They are some of the lowest paid nurses in Europe. Whether your husbands (private sector?) Firm gave him personally a pay rise doesn't really come in to it.
That's the same private sector that funds nurses with taxation money.
Public sector workers also pay tax you know. It's not solely funded by private sector workers. Such an irrelevant point.
Totally agree, the funded bars in Parliament should have been abolished decades ago (too angry to even comment on the jungle fiasco)
The higher the increase the government offer the more taxpayers will have to contribute. The money doesn’t come from a money tree. Yes my husband is in the private sector but even private companies have to cut their cloth accordingly and if revenue isn’t there then salaries can’t be increased. My husband works long hours, pays a fortune towards parking, rail fares, pays for his lunches, is often treated like crap from the top with immense pressure. He just doesn’t strike or throw a wobbly. By not getting a pay rise he has simply had his pay reduced given inflation is extortionate and we’ve had to cut out cloth accordingly.
. Where do we drawer the line.Exactly, if we are all paying higher national insurance to cover the 19% pay rise that the nurses' union is demanding, then there will sadly be a lot less to spend in private sectors, such as retail, tourism, leisure, hospitality, sports and recreation. People in the private sector don't have the assurance of the service being bank rolled by public money.
Minimum wage is just over £20,000 and nurses get paid £33,000 (based on full time working) per year. That is £13,000 worth of appreciation.
They're really not. The EU average nurse wage is £31600. That's lower than UK nurse wage wage. In Norway nurses only make a few thousand more but the cost of living is nearly double. When misinformation like this is pedalled it makes it hard to trust them.
