- Conference
- 2022 Police & Justice Service Group Conference
- Date
- 14 June 2022
- Decision
- Carried
Conference notes that:
1)The Probation Service has a long history of good industrial relations and joint working;
2)It has taken years of hard work to maintain commitment to the National Negotiating Council (NNC) joint agreement on pay and conditions which was introduced in 2006;
3)The custodians to this agreement were the Joint Secretaries, one from the employer and one from the trade unions;
4)Their signatures were required for all national agreements, policies and any guidance on the interpretation and application of said policies and staff terms and conditions;
5)The strain of Transforming Rehabilitation has had a massive impact on industrial relations and the Joint Secretariat role has sadly ceased.
Conference believes that this has unfortunately impacted on how we work together with the employer, we have ended up in disputes caused by the unilateral interpretation and implementation of jointly owned terms and conditions.
Conference therefore calls on the Service Group Executive to support the Probation Service Sector Committee to work with all relevant bodies to seek the reintroduction of the joint secretariat role.