Health
Nurses Consulted Over Pay Offer
A consultative survey will be open for two weeks from 12pm today to 12pm on Wednesday February 14 2024.
The RCN is polling nurses on the island over a 6% pay offer for 2023/24.
Manx Care staff are being consulted on their pay offer which dates back to April 2023.
The RCN has said it is concerned that the offer does not necessarily include back-pay for those who have already left Manx Care in the months since the offer should have been implemented. However, its regional director said the union is ‘not recommending how members should vote, simply asking that they do vote’.
Ms Dunn said: ‘It feels strange to be back out surveying members so soon after agreeing the last pay offer. However, this new offer is for a different pay year as we’re still playing catch-up.
‘The last pay offer took so long to agree and resulted in strike action. However, it was down to our members taking this action that we finally got a better resolution for all employees at Manx Care. We hope this time we can get to a resolution on their pay much more quickly.
‘The matter of back-pay for leavers continues to be an uphill battle for us with Manx Care. Whilst we want to work with Manx Care and the government to get the best offer possible for nursing staff, always being behind with pay offers means that there are staff who have worked the hours but have since left, making them ineligible to claim for the additional monies they should have had if the pay offer had been agreed at the start of the pay year.’
A consultative survey will be open for two weeks from 12pm today to 12pm on Wednesday February 14 2024.
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Last year nurses voted to accept Manx Care’s offer of a consolidated increase of £1,500 to each pay point, with effect from April 1 2022, in addition to the 6% increase already implemented. Of those eligible to vote, 71% of members chose to accept the revised pay offer, with 29% voting to reject. The turnout was 50%.
