Are you being paid for all the hours you work?
NHS staff work incredibly hard, doing many hours above their contract to help deliver patient care. Often these hours are unpaid or worked through the bank, meaning staff are being short changed. We believe this is wrong.
NHS staff should be paid at time-and-a-half rates when they work over 37.5 hours a week in their normal role. But many are paid less than that, or nothing at all. The staffing crisis means you are filling in the gaps more than ever before, and you deserve to be paid for all the hours you work.
If you work bank shifts to help make ends meet, check whether you are being short-changed compared to overtime rates. Bank rates can be up to 50% lower. Plus, thanks to UNISON, regular overtime must be included in your holiday pay. You deserve these hard-fought terms and we want to see money in the pockets of health care staff like you.
Do you think your employer is getting it right? If not, talk to UNISON. Let’s put it right together.
UNISON guide to getting the right pay for working hours
UNISON has produced a guide to help branch reps and organising staff understand how the NHS terms and conditions can be used to get better deals for our members when they work overtime. It includes detailed advice on how to organise and campaign around this issue, to help win the right pay for all the hours our members work.
The guide is available to our activists on the UNISON Organising Space* and staff can access it via Pearl.
(*Please note you will need to log in to both of these. To log into the Organising Space you will need your membership number and password. To log into Pearl you will need your UNISON staff email and login details.)
There is also a campaign postcard. You can order a supply from the UNISON shop to help spread the campaign message and get a conversation started in your workplace.