Higher Education Pay Talks

This is the offer made by UCEA at the pay talks yesterday, and is their ‘best and final‘ offer.

Conditions:

  • unions to agree to put offer to members
  • suspend industrial action.

Pay increases:

  • Aug 06 – greater of 3% or £515
  • Feb 07 – 1%
  • Aug 07 – 3%
  • May 08 – greater of 3% or £420
  • Oct 08 – 2.5%

London weighting:
HEIs retain separate London weighting(s) to be recommended to increase ‘on average’ by the same % uplifts

Other:

  • Agreed statement on reviews of JNCHES and of HE financial and paydata.
  • Agreed statement on implementation of Framework (equal pay etc.),
  • including recommendation to HEIs on equal pay audits.
  • Agreed statement about 35 hour week.
  • Letter to support unions on national youth/training rates.
  • Agreement that HEIs in serious financial difficulty can defer implementation by up to 11 months.
  • Agreement to uprate old scales on the same basis for 2006-2007 only.

Effect on pay rates
Latter part of:

  • 2006-07 +4.03%
  • 2007-03 +10.37%
  • 2008-09 +13.12%

Minimum hourly rates (37 hours per week)

  • 2006-07 £6.0O/£6.06
  • 2007-08 £6.24/£6.45
  • 2008-09 £6.61

Additional Paybill costs
Typically 3% -5% extra for Framework implementation
Superannuation + 1.4% for support staff and + 0.6% for TPS

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