Contracts 'forced' on staff

By Catherine Gaunt, Nursery World, 19 September 2007

More than 400 nursery nurses in Middlesbrough face losing thousands of pounds a year after their local authority gave them a deadline at the end of the month to sign new contracts.

Middlesbrough Council carried out job evaluations for council employees in 2005 as part of the Single Status agreement, but agreed to put those for nursery nurses on hold so that their terms and conditions could be looked at separately. The council is now imposing new terms and conditions of employment on nursery nurses and auxiliary staff after talks between their representatives, unions and the council broke down. Moreover,...

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