1st October 2020
HO/MB/050/20
| Summary: Department publishes final offer letter for 2020 Home Office pay. |
Background
The Department has today published their final offer letter in relation to Pay 2020. This follows negotiations which the department opened in July and continued in August. The implementation has been delayed by the roll out of Metis.
The Treasury published its pay guidance document in May. This sets out how departments can implement pay awards each year. This year the document expected awards between 1.5% and 2%. However, flexibility to use up to 2.5% of monies was allowed if demonstrable improvements in systems and equality outcomes could be demonstrated.
What’s important to note is that the actual new money available from the Treasury is in fact only 1%. This means that in order to top it up to 2.5% use of internal recycled funds is necessary. This exposes the inherent problem with negotiations – the lack of funding from the Government.
The Government have limited the amount of new funding to only 1% meaning that the substantial pay award that our members need cannot be funded. Our national pay claim was for a 10% rise in order to recognise the years of below inflation pay rises that have been imposed, but the refusal of the Government to properly engage with our national union means discussions locally were in a tough position. Continue reading →
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