Staff face status pay cut

By Melanie Defries, Nursery World, 17 April 2008

Nursery nurses from maintained settings in north Wales are facing pay cuts of £3,000 after the council reviewed their pay as part of the single status agreement.

The childcare practitioners employed by Denbighshire county council have been told they are paid an annual salary based on 37 hours a week for the whole year but actually only work 32.5 hours per week during term time. The single status agreement, a government initiative dating back to 1997, is aimed at ensuring equal pay for work of equal value for council employees. Denbighshire county council claims that overall 73 per cent of the workforce will benefit from the...

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