Staff in local authority schools, nurseries and nursery schools have been campaigning for more than two years to have their jobs regraded and their salaries brought into line with nursery nurses in nearby boroughs. The council has not yet come up with a revised job description or pay proposals.
While nursery nurses in Greenwich are paid according to local authority pay scale 3 - 15,500 to 16,488 per year - their counterparts in Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Southwark are paid on scale 5, which ranges from Pounds 18,963 to 20,649 a year. Nursery nurses in Greenwich work 32.5 hours a week and have school holidays.
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