The respective interim directors of people at NBT and UHBW announced that unlike substantive staff, bank staff will not receive a back payment for the pay increase in August – and that only in September the trusts will decide whether bank rates will be increased at all. As bank staff, who do the same work shoulder to shoulder with our colleagues, we find this unjust and discriminatory. HCA bank staff had already been excluded from the back payment during the re-banding process!

The management decision also means that permanent staff will get a lower rate for their extra shifts and won’t get the back pay for their bank work either! The trusts already abuse the bank system in order not to pay the higher over-time rate, but colleagues in other towns have found ways to respond to that – read more here.

Together, substantive and bank staff, we will start collecting signatures for a petition. If you want to help us with that, please get in touch:

vitalsignsmag@proton.me

Equal pay rise for everyone!