{"id":19512,"date":"2019-11-19T14:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19512"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:54:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:54:52","slug":"rspca-pay-dispute-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19512","title":{"rendered":"RSPCA pay dispute deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">RSPCA staff<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> are being balloted for industrial action in a dispute over pay and new contracts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">Hundreds of <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Unite Members<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> at <\/span><span class=\"s2\">the <\/span><a href=\"x-apple-ql-id:\/\/\/word\/unitelive.org\/tag\/charity\"><span class=\"s3\">charity<\/span><\/a> <span class=\"s2\">are being sent voting papers in a consultative ballot designed to test the temperature on whether to proceed to a full-scale industrial action ballot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">T<\/span><span class=\"s2\">he crux of the dispute is management\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposals to jettison the recently negotiated incremental pay scheme with a performance pay arrangement which could exacerbate plummeting staff morale in an organisation where <\/span><a href=\"x-apple-ql-id:\/\/\/word\/unitelive.org\/tag\/bullying\"><span class=\"s3\">bullying<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s2\"> has been endemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">U<\/span><span class=\"s2\">nder the proposals, staff allowances, especially standby payments, will be reduced by 50 per cent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">For example, an inspector will see an annual average reduction in their salary of at least \u00c2\u01412,000 and potentially as high as \u00c2\u01414,000. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">Other front line, animal and wildlife centre staff face similar deductions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">Unite regional officer Jesika Parmer said<\/span><span class=\"s2\">,<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u00e2\u20ac\u015bNegotiations between Unite and the management over the new pay framework proposals have broken down. These plans will have serious financial implications for our members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span class=\"s2\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Totally unacceptable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">The new contracts will mean that it will be easier to sack our members which is totally unacceptable &#8211; and this move is coming against a background of a culture of bullying at the <\/span><a href=\"x-apple-ql-id:\/\/\/word\/unitelive.org\/tag\/RSPCA\"><span class=\"s3\">RSPCA<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">There <\/span><span class=\"s2\">are currently a number of major<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> RSPCA<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> infrastructure projects which are millions of pounds over budget<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> and the organisation is facing financial difficulties<\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">Parmer said RSPCA bosses are trying to make staff pay the price for their mistakes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">She said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI<\/span><span class=\"s2\">t is simply not acceptable that front line staff bear the financial pain for catastrophic mistakes made by senior project managers. According to the society\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own data, the number of senior managers has doubled since 2014 to a total of 37 and yet the debt has grown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members are now being asked in a consultative ballot if they wish to go to the next stage of a full-scale industrial action ballot. However, there is a window of opportunity for the management to row back and enter into constructive negotiations with Unite.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RSPCA staff to hold consultative ballot on industrial action in pay and contracts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1044,1043],"wps_subtitle":"RSPCA staff to hold consultative ballot on industrial action in pay and contracts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 row","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24852,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19512\/revisions\/24852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}