- Conference
- 2009 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 11 December 2008
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
Conference notes with disgust that many NHS employers contract Security Services from Security firms which pay staff on the national minimum wage and/or zero hours contracts often with little continuity of base.
Conference notes that it is difficult to organise successfully within these employers.
Conference believes that NHS employers have a duty to ensure that the companies they contract with employ their staff on terms and conditions at least comparable to AfC.
To this end Conference resolves to:
1. raise the issues in Staff Council to seek national support to encourage NHS employers to review their security arrangements;
2. call on Regions to co-ordinate and support Branches to approach employers to achieve this;
3. produce Guidance to Branches;
4. take up the issue with Strategic Health Authority Partnership Forums and relevant forums in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland where applicable; and
5. traise politically across the UK.