Just looking at the
NHS Employers website to see if the new pay circular has been issued (
yes it has ) when I noticed that the website has a few problems and instead of linking to the pay and conditions (which is actually further down the page) it actually links to a
review on national recruitment and retention for maintainance craft workers which states:
�The national RRP should continue to be paid for qualified maintenance craft workers because nationally agreed rates are higher in the external private sector labour market than in the NHS and without the RRP pay levels would be uncompetitive�
Later it states that RRP's should be paid to maintaince craft workers who are required to hold
electrical,
engineering, plumbing or
mechanical qualifications.
So is anybody actually receiving RRP not just instead of pay protection but such that pay levels are competitive with the private sector? I surely doubt it!
