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As Christmas Day and Boxing Day 2021 fall on Saturday and Sunday respectively and New Year’s Day 2022 falls on a Saturday, Monday 27 December automatically becomes a public holiday in place of Christmas Day and the Government has designated Tuesday 28 December and Monday 3 January 2022 as public holidays, with pay in substitution …

Please sign this important petition to help Clerks – and pass it on to others to sign. Petition: Legislate to enable Councillors to be disqualified or suspended for poor conduct https://t.co/SrlWbKMYzv — ALCC (@AlccUnion) May 26, 2021

The Trade Unions have now responded to the Employers offer of an increase of 1.5% by rejecting it and seeking further urgent talks. Members will be kept advised of developments.

The Local Government Employers have now responded to the claim from the unions by offering a 1.5% increase to all grades, effective from 1st April 2021. They have also proposed an immediate start to explore: 1) a national minimum agreement on homeworking 2) an agreement on a best practice agreement on mental health support for …

To update the position given previously, the National Employers have now met and say that they will not be able to respond to the unions’ clam until after the elections which are scheduled for 6th May. This means the anniversary date will have passed and it will be several months before this is finalised. Again, …

The NJC unions have lodged the pay and terms and conditions claims for local government (‘Green Book’) staff for 2021 which seek: A substantial increase with a minimum of 10% on all spinal column points Introduction of a homeworking allowance for all staff who are working from home A national minimum agreement on homeworking policies …

Chairman’s Report – issue 4. First of all, may I wish you a belated happy new year and I hope that soon we may all put the pandemic under control and get back to our day jobs in providing services for our electorate. I am sorry to say that the help line is still well …

Some of our members have to tolerate this kind of unacceptable behaviour. https://youtu.be/6n7mB-P2_M4  

The Unions have submitted their 2021 pay claim to the Local Government Employers. The claim calls for: • A one-year settlement running for the period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 • A £2,000 flat rate increase to all spinal column points, or 6%, whichever is greater (based on a 37 hour working week). …

National Living Wage to increase by 2.2% The National Living Wage is set to increase this April by 2.2% when it will go up from £8.72 to £8.91 per hour. The age bracket for the payment of this is also reduced to include 23 and 24 year olds for the first time. The increases in …