Barnet & Southgate College Update 19 July

UNISON raised the issue with management about the inequality of London Weighting (LW) pay between the Teaching Staff and the Business Support staff and has asked for a justification for the disparity in pay.  UNISON stated that in the interest of fairness and to ensure that no discriminatory practices are occurring surely LW must be calculated on a fair and transparent basis and applied consistently to all Barnet & Southgate College staff. 

ELG has endorsed a positive recommendation to the Finance and HR sub-committee of the Corporation who agreed on 12 July to align the current London Weighting Allowance for service area staff to the same level as Academic staff which will result in an increase for all service area staff with effect from 1 August 2012.  HR will be sending out a letter to all service area staff confirming this change.

UNISON will endeavour to consult and negotiate to harmonise the terms and conditions of service area staff during the consultation for the restructure of service area staff in the Autumn term.

In the interim, UNISON and Organisational Development/HR have run individual meetings with Heads of Curriculum; focus groups with curriculum managers and teaching staff; focus groups with central admin team and the compliance team with the objective to:

·         Review current curriculum admin support,establish the strengths and weakness of the current admin support in place at all campuses.

·         Establish what of admin service/provision is required to support the curriculum area.

·         Obtain suggestions for a proposed model of delivery for curriculum admin support which will meet the organisational needs within a cost-effective framework.

 

After analysing the results of these focus groups a comprehensive report based on the findings from the audit will be submitted to ELG  for consideration in advance of the ELG proposed structure changes for Business Support which will be taking place in the Autumn term.

 

I would urge each and every member to act as a recruiter.  If every member recruits an additional member our total membership will exceed by a significant margin, please contact me for further information.

I would also like to take this opportunity to wish you all a good summer break and look forward to meeting with you all in the new academic year.

Christalla Tsattala

UNISON Barnet & Southgate Senior Steward