UK Government Faces Backlash Over 1% NHS Staff Pay Rise
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UK Government Faces Backlash Over 1% NHS Staff Pay Rise
The government is facing a furious backlash after calling for NHS staff in England to be restricted to a pay rise of just 1%.
Ministers defended the proposal at a time when the economy was under "huge pressure" as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
But health service unions said the proposed award as a "kick in the teeth" for staff who had given "absolutely everything" over the past year to keep the public safe.
The Royal College of Nursing, the UK’s largest nursing union, is to set up a £35 million industrial action fund in response to the government’s proposal.
Report by Avagninag.
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More than 154,000 NHS Scotland staff are to be offered a pay rise of at least 4% in a deal from the Scottish Government.The move will benefit employees with contracts under the Agenda for Change..
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A proposed 1% pay rise for NHS staff is not a real-terms cut, the Health Secretary has said.Matt Hancock told a committee of MPs that NHS workers had been “carved out” of the pay freeze across the..
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