After several years of austerity and minimal pay rises, two pay cap-breaking pay offers have come at once. A three year offer for NHS staff and a two year offer for those covered by the Local Government National Joint Council (NJC).
The latter is going to felt by schools across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as the NJC is the national pay system for schools – indeed, the NJC covers more than 1.5 million local government and school workers.
The deal will be complex so schools will need to consider it in detail. The very basics are a minimum pay increase of just over four per cent over the two years for support staff currently earning more than £20,000, with increasing amounts for lower paid staff – all wrapped up with a new national pay spine.
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