How’s you extra hour NHS staff??

[Anickasmidden]

How’s your department dealing with it? Ours is a mess nobody happy, management don’t have a clue…

No, not according to the government guidance that finally came out. I’d rather have had an extra days holiday?

I’m absolutely bemused the unions accepted this. There has been no mention of a pay rise this year. Inflation still running above 3.5% so that’ll be another real term pay cut. I assumed that part time staff would still stay on the same hours and just increase their wte percentage. Not give a 18 minute reduction on the week.

We're getting paid overtime or excess hours until it's implemented. Working out annual leave for folk who are part time is going to be an absolute nightmare. Folk who were doing 30 hours will be doing something like 29.6 hours now (unless we can find £ to round up??), if they still work 7.5 hour days they'll end up with weird minutes left of leave.

No one has thought about how we're going to do this fairly, within budget and without impacting on services. NHS Scotland has about 156000 wte staff, each one of those will lose 1.5 hours per week - so about 234,000 hours per week lost or 6300 WTE. That's going to work well.

I don't think Ive ever heard someone I work with say I wish I worked an hour and a half less a week...