Here are a few facts about Your Choice Barnet
YOUR CHOICE THE
FACTS
Your Choice
is claiming that the proposed changes to staff terms & conditions are
not going to have an impact on service quality.
Currently
Support Workers are paid £12.40-£13.56/ hr and Assistant Support
Workers are paid £9.49-£10.07/ hr
M As
& When hours: Your Choice rely heavily on As & When hours. We learnt
that staff now working As & When have already had their rate cut by
25% before the consultation began.
M 28
support
workers posts to be reduced to 8 support workers posts.
M Creation
of 20.5 assistant support worker posts
M Enhancements
for working evenings to be stopped
M Enhancements
for working weekends to be stopped (these are paid at time and a
half)
M Staff
working a 5 day week to be moved to a 7 working week with
no extra pay.
M Up
to a sixth of the workforce have requested and been granted
voluntary redundancy. This will have a massive impact on a client group
who have built long term relationships with workers in which
‘trust’ is a critical feature of this relationship.
M Your
Choice has commissioned a consultant to carry out a benchmarking exercise
with the market competitors.
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