The Scottish Employers have made a two year offer on SJC Pay for
the period 2015- 2017. This followed an initial one year offer of 1% which the
trade unions indicated did not in any way meet our claim. The offer totals 2.5%
for the two year period. Distribution hasn't been specified although informal
indications from the employers is that they would favour an equal distribution
in each year.
The Joint Trade Unions agreed that the offer did not address the
specifics of our claim in both the value of the offer and the flat rate
element.
Whilst negotiations on the day did not realise any improvement to
the offer, the employers did agree to come back to a further meeting at the end
of April with their view of the value of a flat rate offer and whether 2.5% is
the maximum value of their offer. At this stage the employers have not made a
commitment to any type of flat rate offer.
A more detailed report will be presented to the Scottish Local
Government Conference on 17th April.
The Local
Government Committee has also agreed to use the Networking Meeting prior to the
Conference for a session on developing our campaign particularly our political
campaign both locally and nationally. We would therefore encourage as many
conference delegates to attend this session as possible.
