single status

[bob]

has anyone else been afected by single status we have just been informed we have not made our grade and may have to take a 6k pa pay cut

[Dean Lofthouse]

6K !!n Thats half my salary!!

[Mr Ed]

Blimey! I have to do a full week to earn that

 

seriously, is this based on your marital status bob?

[igottacabstar]

Hell! I'm up at 7am to earn that much a day!

[bob]

sorry ed all council employees in the country have had to have there jobs and wages re assessed which is called single status all for equal rights and all that stuff obviosly wont be doing a lot tomorrow wages are garanteed for a period whilst they try to re work it but if anyone remembers my list of qualifications i wont be taking a pay cut ill be away

[Mr Ed]

Peter was telling me about that today. I thought pay was going up?

[Ben]

Pay in some councils is going down in others it's going up, all depends on what pay scale you are on to start with.

[bob]

too true but a 6k drop is not good

[Ben]

If my pay was cut by 6K a year I'd be off to.

[Peter]

The lads in stockport were told to expect a £5-6k paycut on the day i finished working for the council. They ended up on just under £10 an hour. No idea how it will work out in other areas though.

The five of us on the tree team wrote the job description between us, as we had no confidence in the managers writing a seperate one for arb and not just lumping us in with the gardeners.

Hope it works out ok for you. If there are significant pay cuts in LA arb teams then the future of council tree work looks pretty bleak.