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Published Date: 07 May 2008
UNIONS have warned council leaders in Edinburgh they will oppose wholesale changes to workers' benefits and conditions being proposed as part of a major pay shake-up.
Officials want to change working hours, scrap public holidays for staff, abandon all bonus schemes and introduce standard rates for overtime, under plans to review the salaries of 17,000 staff.

But the public-sector union Unison will fight any attempts to strip workers off long-held benefits and other conditions.

Union leaders claim the city council risks losing hundreds of staff and struggling to recruit new workers for key posts.





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  • Last Updated: 07 May 2008 12:50 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

The Answer,

Glasgow 07/05/2008 00:59:42
17,000 staff ?
2

qohldr,

07/05/2008 08:25:22
Officials want to change working hours, scrap public holidays for staff, abandon all bonus schemes and introduce standard rates for overtime,
That is a great idea as long as it includes the councillors as well but we all know it won't.
3

Robin Bankes,

Culross 07/05/2008 08:30:29
#1 17,000 staff?

Yes, based on full-time equivalent. It compares favourably with your city where the FTE is closer to 35000.
4

Robin Bankes,

Culross 07/05/2008 08:35:01
"Officials want to change working hours, scrap public holidays for staff..."

Get a grip, Scotsman! Instead of claiming that public holidays would be "scrapped" under the proposals you might have mentioned that the actual proposal is to transfer most public holidays into annual leave entitlement. It is a fairly common practice.
5

Bruce's spider,

07/05/2008 08:38:11
Hopefully this is one fight that Unison will lose. Its about time that those in Council and government employ started living in the same world as those of us that work in the private sector.
6

Marian,

07/05/2008 08:40:14
One has to ask why it is Edinburgh Council is directly employing workers in jobs that could be done to higher standards, more efficiently and for lower cost by the private sector.. Marks & Spencer, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and similar companies out-source much of their non-core work, with no apparent problems so why is it that Edinburgh Council with its armies of bureaucrats.to ovesee services, finds it such a problem to get high quality standards from their own directly employed workforce.
7

Venachar,

07/05/2008 09:40:04
Nice to see the Unions don't want equal pay for women.

 

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