{"id":10711,"date":"2016-11-30T15:34:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10711"},"modified":"2016-11-30T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:34:23","slug":"scrooge-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10711","title":{"rendered":"‘Scrooge’ council"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Barnsley council is frontrunner for the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most Scrooge-like local authority, after it denied health visitors and community nurses an extra day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s holiday given to the rest of the workforce for receiving an Investing in People award.<\/p>\n

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Unite said that the South Yorkshire council was \u00e2\u20ac\u0098giving Scrooge a run for his money in the run-up to Christmas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, after council bosses told health visitors, school nurses and community nurses that they would not receive the extra day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s holiday that the rest of the workforce would get.<\/p>\n

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The 0-19 years\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s service was transferred from the NHS to the council in October as part of the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strategy for local government to take over the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098public health\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 agenda.<\/p>\n

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Unite members transferred under the TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment) regulations and are now Barnsley council employees.<\/p>\n

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But mean-spirited council leader Sir Stephen Houghton CBE and chief executive Diana Terris told the health visitors and community nurses, who number about 30, that they were going to be denied this goodwill gesture.<\/p>\n

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Unite said that the extra day would be on offer if the health professionals gave up their TUPE rights which would have adversely affected their NHS pensions and eventual retirement incomes.<\/p>\n

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Unite lead officer for health in Yorkshire Terry Cunliffe said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat we have here is a case of a council that won this award for \u00e2\u20ac\u0098hard work and commitment\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 treating a section of its workforce as second-class citizens \u00e2\u20ac\u201c hardly the ethos that won the council the Investing in People award in the first place.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is despite the fact that our community nurse members have dedicated their entire working lives to supporting the children of Barnsley, as well as mums and their families,” he added. “They have protected children from abuse, yet they have not been included in this \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Team Barnsley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 recognition.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is shameful \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the council needs to rethink its decision, otherwise it will walk away with the award for UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most Scrooge-like local authority in the run-up to Christmas.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe TUPE rights they were told to give up was to exchange all their NHS conditions for Barnsley council conditions and keep their NHS pension, or give up their NHS pension and keep their NHS terms and conditions,” Cunliffe explained.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bA number of our members with long-standing NHS pensions were forced to take worse terms and conditions when they moved over to the council, rather than lose the continuity of their NHS pension.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat has happened is a deliberate and insidious undermining of the TUPE legislation by a council that should know better. It is a travesty of natural justice and Unite is currently preparing a legal response.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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