From: "Andrew Hobart"
> So when working out back pay you cannot make any allowance for premium
> time. You should be agreeing a job plan based on what you do now, not a
> completely new job plan.
I disagree; surely the whole idea of the contract - from the government's
perspective - is to make us work in a completely new way. And, with
completely different pay structures from the old contract, surely we have to
start from a "clean sheet" with the new contract?
> As long as you do 40 hours or more total work
> of all sorts you should be OK. If you are one of the exceptional group
> of Consultants who does less than 40 hours a week you may be better off
> staying on your current contract for now.
Oh, so now you're telling us that the new contract really only suits those
consultants who were working voluntary overtime! And so your advice to take
the new contract wasn't aimed at those of us who were working 40 hours or
less! I think there are many consultants who do less than 40 hours of
scheduled work per week, Andrew. Many never do resident nights or weekends,
so by definition cannot do more than 40 hours per week, and many worked to
the old contract of 35 or 38.5 hours. We work 36 "actual" hours per week
(resident), but just over 26 of these are in "standard" time, and just under
10 are in "premium" time. The "riser" for the premium time work will boost
these 10 premium hours to 13 standard hour-equivalents, making our total
hours 39.25 (standard equivalent), close enough to 40 to be accepted by our
managers, we feel. If we don't get the premium time riser 'til next April,
we will only be doing 36 hours per week, with a potential drop in salary to
deal with!
> How much of your 7.5 sessions of clinical work are you expecting to be
> shopfloor and how much clinical admin?
Yes, you have a point, we will end up doing 7.3 shopfloor sessions, which is
probably too much, but in reality not every minute of these sessions are
spent actually on the shopfloor, especially during evenings or weekends.
> I will get a very small payrise by moving onto the new contract now but
> providing my Trust agrees to pay me for my premium time session rather
> than asking me to take time off in lieu I will get a fairly substantial
> rise next April. If they don't agree now to pay me for premium time I
> wont be taking the new contract.
Now you've confused me, Andrew. Surely the trust will only pay you a
full-time salary, i.e. if you do a lot of premium time work then you will
have to take time off in lieu (as we do) in order to maintain your
"standard-equivalent" hours at 40, unless you're suggesting that you will
try to get paid 11 or 12 sessions for you work?
Adrian Fogarty
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