Superintendents’ Pay – PNB outcomes 24 July 2013 At the Police Negotiating Board meeting held on 24 July 2013 the new pay scales for Superintendents (following the recommendations from the Winsor Review) were agreed. Pay scales for Chief Superintendents were agreed at the PNB meeting in July 2012, however the exact details of the implementation of these, to minimise the potential for leap-frogging, is still subject to further negotiation. In relation to Superintendents, the Winsor Review made the following recommendation: The national spend on bonuses and double increments for Superintendents should be reinvested into a revised three-point pay scale for Superintendents, with a starting salary of £60,094 and a maximum of £72,585 from April 2014.’ This recommendation proposed a £2,200...
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Spending Review 2013
Spending Review 2013 Chief Superintendent Graham Cassidy, National Secretary, comments on the Spending Review 2013. You will be aware that in this week’s comprehensive spending review statement the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that Government Departments would put in place plans to end automatic pay progression. While there have been references to policing within this broad statement, there is no new announcement in respect of police officer pay within the Treasury’s Spending Round 2013 document. Instead, paragraph 1.59 of that document, on page 29, simply states that: “The police have been subject to a two-year progression freeze.” Therefore, it appears that the headline statement in respect of automatic pay progression in the public sector actually involves no new proposals for...
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Pay Review Body for the Police Service
Tom Winsor proposed in his Review of Pay and Conditions of Service for Police Officers and Staff that the Police Negotiating Board (PNB) should be replaced with a Pay Review Body for police pay (up to and including the rank of Chief Superintendent) by 2014. The Home Secretary has decided to implement this recommendation and the PSAEW was recently asked to submit evidence on what it believed a Pay Review Body for the police should look like. Following extensive consultation with its members, the PSAEW submitted a comprehensive report to the Government in January 2013. The Government received 55 other responses. The Government has published its Response to those who submitted evidence on the implementation of a Police Pay Review...
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Pay Rise Announced for Police Officers
At the conclusion of the PNB meeting held on 11th April 2013, which was attended by the National Secretary Graham Cassidy and the National Deputy Secretary Tim Jackson the Chair of the Staff Side Steve Williams (Chair of the PFEW) made the following announcement on behalf of the Staff Side: “As colleagues will be aware, the Government has announced that there will be a policy of limiting pay awards in the public sector to an average of one percent. “Police officers in England and Wales have received no pay rise since September 2010. In addition many have been subject to an incremental progression freeze and other changes which have reduced the value of police officers’ pay. “Staff Side wrote to...
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Home Secretary Accepts PAT Findings
The Home Secretary has today announced that she has decided to accept in full the findings of the Independent Police Arbitration Tribunal on the Winsor 2 Recommendations. The Home Secretary has ratified the following:- Expertise and Professional Accreditation Allowance rejected Compulsory severance – negotiations extended to July 2013 CRTPs to be phased out between 2013 and 2016 On Call payable at £15 a session No links between regional allowances and performance Pay scale for new entrants to be reduced to £19,000 The PSAEW, whilst disappointed with some of the Home Secretary’s decision, welcomes the fact that she has accepted the PAT findings in full. We will work hard in the coming months with the Police Federation , through the Staff...
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PAT Findings on Winsor 2 Recommendations
The decision of the Police Arbitration Tribunal on the Winsor 2 recommendations has been published today, 6 December 2012. The report runs to 42 pages and can be accessed by clicking the link below. PAT FINAL Award 06122012 -Full Text Headline features of the report are as follows: The PAT have made ‘no decision’ on the Winsor 2 proposal to introduce compulsory severance for police officers in April 2013. They have recommended that further negotiations take place between the Staff Side and Official Side between now and July 2013 in an attempt to reach agreement on this recommendation. The PAT have rejected the payment of an Experience and Professional Accreditation Allowance for Federated officers engaged in public order, investigating, firearms...
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Independent Police Arbitration Tribunal – 30th October
The Staff Side appeared before the Police Arbitration Tribunal again on Tuesday 30th October. Following our earlier appearance on 18th October the Staff Side presented its case on the following recommendations contained in the Winsor II Report in respect of which it registered a ‘failure to agree’ at July’s PNB meeting. It has taken over two months of hard work for Staff Side to prepare its case. Recommendation 54 – A revised salary scale for Constables with a proposal for a reduction of over £4,000 in the starting salary. Recommendation 112 – ‘On Call Allowance’ – A proposal of £15 to be paid after 12 free qualifying periods of ‘on call’. Recommendation 74 – Regional Allowances to be linked to...
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Pay Review Body Consultation
The Government have announced a 4 week consultation period to scope how the transition from the Police Negotiating Board (PNB) to a Pay Review Body (PRB) should be made and to consider the details of the proposals for the PRB, including the terms of reference, membership and processes around it. Winsor 2 recommended that police pay should be decided from 2014 by a PRB and that PNB should be abolished. This, despite our submission to Winsor which argued for a reformed version of PNB to continue. Police officers have very limited industrial rights and a reformed PNB was seen by the PSAEW as preferable to a PRB where police officers will be denied the chance for collective negotiation with their...
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Police Arbitration Tribunal Hearing Goes into Extra Time
The independent Police Arbitration Tribunal met on the 18 October to hear those matters contained in the Winsor 2 Report where a ‘failure to agree’ was registered at the Police Negotiating Board meeting held in Cardiff on 24 July 2012. The Police Arbitration Tribunal Hearing did not reach a conclusion as there are matters still to be considered by the Panel. The Hearing will continue on Tuesday 30 October 2012. We will keep you informed of any developments.
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Results of PNB Negotiations on Winsor 2
The Police Negotiating Board met on 24 July 2012 to discuss a number of the recommendations from Part 2 of the Winsor Review of Remunerations and Conditions for Police Officers and Police Staff. This meeting was the culmination of a number of working groups that had been held between April and July in order to reach some agreement in relation to the recommendations and is the date by which the Home Secretary stated that she required a PNB decision on a number of the recommendations. Other recommendations were deferred until 2013 and some were remitted to the Police Professional Body (now the College of Policing). Superintending Ranks The outcomes of the recommendations relating to superintending ranks that were specified for...
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