NJC LG Pay 2018 - Examples of impact of pay award - GMB

HOW THE PAY PROPOSALS WOULD WORK: SOME EXAMPLES

NIAMH Niamh is a cleaner on Spinal Column Point 6 (£7.78 an hour). She works 18 hours a week. Her annual pay in 2017/18 will be £7,282. From April 2018 her hourly rate will rise to £8.50 – an increase of 9.3% In April 2019 SCP6 will be replaced by the new Point 1 which will be worth £9 an hour. This represents a further increase of 5.9% . Overall, Niamh’s hourly pay will increase by 15.7 % between 2017/18 and 2019/20. Niamh’s pay would go up to £7,956 in April 2018. It would go up again to £8,424 in April 2019 when the pay spine is introduced.

MICHAEL Michael works as a clerical assistant and is on SCP9 (£7.97 an hour). He works 27 hours a week. This is 75 per cent of full-time hours. His annual pay is £11,190. Michael’s hourly pay would increase to £8.68 in April 2018 – a rise of 8.9%. In April 2019 he would be moved on to the new SCP2 of £9.18 – a further increase of 5.8%. His pay would increase by 15.2% in total over the two year period. His annual pay would go up to £12,187 in April 2018. It would go up again to £12,889 in April 2019. MONISHA Monisha is a nursery assistant and is on SCP11 (£8.19 an hour). She works 3 full days a week. Her annual pay is £9,582. Monisha would get a 7.7 %pay rise in April 2018 (to £8.82 an hour). This would increase her annual pay to £10,319. She would receive a further increase to £9.36 an hour in April 2019 when she would be moved on to the new SP3 – a further rise of 6.1 %. Her annual pay in 2019/20 would be £10,951. Overall, Monisha’s hourly pay would rise by 14.3 %from 2017 to 2019.

ELEANOR Eleanor works as a manager and she is on SCP41 (£18.86 an hour). She works 37.5 hours a week. Her annual pay is £36,270. Eleanor would get a 2 % pay rise in April 2018 when she would be moved on to the new SCP35. This would increase her hourly rate to £19.23 (or £37,499 annually). She would receive a further 2% increase in April 2019. This would raise her hourly pay to £19.62 and her annual pay to £38,259. RUSSELL Russell is employed as a Level 1 Refuse Operative at the top of his pay band on SCP23 (£11.02 an hour). He works full time. His annual pay is £21,489. In April 2018 his hourly rate would increase by 2% to £11.24. His annual pay would increase to £21,918. In April 2019 he would be moved on to the new SCP14 of £11.64 an hour – an increase of 3.6%. His annual salary would be £22,698. Between 2017 and 2019 his hourly rate would increase by 5.6%.

KAYLEIGH Kayleigh is a Level 2 Teaching Assistant at the top of her pay band (SCP16). She earns £9.03 an hour. She is paid for 195 days work a year on a term-time only contract. Under her local authority’s formula for reckoning term-time pay, this equates to an annual salary of £14,199. In April 2019 her hourly salary would increase to £9.50 – a rise of 5.2%. Her annual salary would increase to £14,938. Kayleigh’s hourly salary would increase to £9.94 in April 2019 when she would be moved on to the new SCP6. This represents a further increase of 4.6% . Her new annual salary would be £15,629. Her basic hourly rate and her annual salary would increase by 10.1% over the two year period.

Note: Local authority banding structures vary considerably. NJC local authorities have a legal duty to disclose copies of their own banding schemes in response to reasonable written requests from GMB representatives.

Further information of employers’ duty to provide information can be found in the ACAS Code of Practice: Disclosure of information to trade unions for collective bargaining purposes and in the monthly Inflation and Wages Report which is sent to GMB Organisers. In 2016 the Labour Research Department produced a survey of the banding structures for all upper-tier local authorities in England and Wales for roles including Refuse Operators, Cleaners, Domiciliary Care Assistants, and Teaching Assistants. If you require copies of these documents please contact National Office or email [email protected].