NJC Pay award

[tdgriffin]

The School I work at does not follow the NJC or have salary scales nor follows local Government pay policy. How would any increase work for us? We are an academy, does this leave us support staff rudderless. I know a few support staff have Unison membership perhaps they maybe able to help.

My school always honours the pay increase percentage. However at the moment they have only backdated it to the start of the academic year not April like council staff. I have contemplated getting Unison involved with this.

I would certainly contact your union. You should have some sort of salary scales surely?

We do not have salary scales at all. We have just been give 5% backdated to September only. Which is very poor for the lower paid staff.

No sign of any pay increase or backdating at all here….

Join a union. You can't expect a union you are not a member of to negotiate on your behalf, although they will likely be willing to negotiate for their own members.

If you have an NEU rep in school, they may be your best bet. However, if the majority of support staff are UNISON, they may be a better option.

The academy can, effectively, do what they like, though. If they have given you the 5% it sounds like they are open to giving pay increases, though, which is useful.