My views on the pay rise offer

The pay rise and other points for the leadership team. Well after all the traffic that has gone on the Fair Deal boards I thought I would start my own discussion.

Grateful you may be Chic it still does not get away from the fact that it is a very poor deal. Lets use some random figures. Lets say that you earn your money to feed your family. It costs $100 to feed your family and you are paid $100. A year later you get the pay rise of 1.5% inflation is running at 5% your pay goes up to $101.50 your shopping goes up to $105 a net loss of $3.50 in other words a pay CUT of $3.50. Take away also this year the 6 months loss of our pay rise that makes it 0.75% pay rise take away the $1 increase in subs 20% o the pay rise that now falls to lets say 0.15% that gives us a pay rise in $ of $0.6 which now means our pay will be $100.60 now a net loss of $4.40. Call that a well worked deal I certainly don’t.

I posted this reply yesterday a starting point. I did not even mention the tax on our pay rise!!!

A second point and one that will probably cause discussion in the ranks.

Why is there so many different pay scales in the system for support staff. Why is there a different pay scale for Administrative and Associate staff and why is it that Scale A stops for associate at step 2 but goes on for Admin staff to step 4. And on the same subject why do the Admin scale B get 14 steps and the associate scale only 8. Scale C seems to be a bit fairer until step 8 then Admin goes its own merry way. Could it be that Administrators control the funds????

Why can we not all start off in the same pay scale and work your way up the scales then the negotiators only have one pay rise to negotiate. I can hear the howls of derision already.

How many people out there have done the sums and realise that the negotiated pay rise is not as good as it looks with inflation running so high. I don’t buy the fact that there is a lack of money available that is a cop out our team need to renegotiate and at least get whatever back dated to the Feb date as agreed.

Rant over for a while await the discussions.