Category: Local

 

BREAKING NEWS: Barnet Council to transfer the management of Street Scene services to Barnet Group a Local Authority Trading Company.

Barnet Group is made up of Barnet Homes, Your Choice Barnet.

370 staff were informed today that they will be managed by Barnet Group initially for a six month period.

Staff will still be employed by Barnet Council.

The decision has been made by a Delegated Powers Report signed by the Chief Executive.

Barnet UNISON is in the process of meeting with our members and have agreed an emergency meeting with senior managers and the local reps for Tuesday 16 February 2016.

We have managed to book the following meetings but we are looking to organise more meetings.

We are looking to book some meetings across a number of schools. » Read more

It was announced recently that Library Staff have achieved a 97% customer service satisfaction score in a survey of the public, the highest for any Council or Partner Service.  Last year Libraries won the Barnet Council Staff Team Award. Libraries staff  are also about to launch the  Barnet Libraries Festival while continuing to provide their regular service which not only includes the  loan of books and audio-visual items and providing information but also  running  regular activities such as story times for children, conversation sessions for English language learners and  IT  tuition  for adults. » Read more

 

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Summary

1) UNISON members have given a strong mandate to UNISON to register their disagreement with the proposals outlined in the document to the employer.

2) The proposals see around 18% of jobs in Adults and Communities excluding mental health being lost. Whilst this is offset by the creation of 22 jobs and the reduction then falls to around 9%, the majority of those new posts are in place of higher paid and professional posts. Whilst there are fewer hard redundancies there is huge concern as to how any consequent increase in workload can be managed in a safe way against a backdrop of a workforce already struggling to keep on top of managing the work safely. » Read more

Dear Colleagues

Barnet Council issued the following statement yesterday Thursday 28 January 2016:

“The following communication applies to directly employed council staff, with the exception of those employed in Education and Skills who are currently subject to alternative delivery model proposals. The proposals will automatically apply to non-teaching staff in Community Schools. These proposals do not automatically apply to non-teaching staff in non-community schools where it is for the governing body to decide.

As you will know, the council has been working on the Unified Reward project since 2012, reviewing the basic pay, terms and conditions of all staff, including support staff in community schools whose terms and conditions are governed by National Joint Council (NJC), but excluding Education and Skills staff. The council’s aims and objectives of Unified Reward is to create a pay and reward system which is simpler, fairer, more flexible and rewards performance. The council believes this was needed to address the wide range of grades that had been created across the authority, remove inconsistencies and to ensure that staff are being rewarded for the work they do. The trade unions have worked closely with the council to jointly evaluate more than 4,000 jobs.

Since October 2015, the council has been negotiating with the trade unions on the updated package of proposals. Those negotiations have now reached a conclusion, and both the council and trade unions will be in a position to shortly present a full package of proposals to staff for the purposes of consultation.

The last three months of negotiations have been looking at a number of elements. As well as reviewing basic pay, other forms of pay and reward have been reviewed, and terms and conditions including changes to annual leave, sickness and other allowances have all been discussed. The negotiations have been constructive and both the council and your trade unions have moved from their initial positions, to try and reach the mutual goal of a fair package for all, to present to staff for consultation.

The council and trade unions have now in principle reached an agreement on the proposals to be shared with and considered by staff through a formal consultation process, which for the council will take place in the form of briefings and for trade union members will be conducted by way of a formal consultative ballot according to their democratic procedures.

We will let you know more about these council briefings and how you can book your place soon.

Any questions you have about the process at this stage should be directed to unified.reward@barnet.gov.uk.

You can contact your trade union at contactus@barnetunsion.org.uk mary.goodson@barnet.gov.uk”

 

IMPORTANT PLEASE NOTE :

If you have any questions or concerns please email the Council at unified.reward@barnet.gov.uk and copy in UNISON at contactus@barnetunison.org.uk