Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Annual General Meeting 14th March 2013 - Postponed

Please note that the Annual General Meeting that was advertised to some members as taking place tomorrow 14th March 2013 at the Danum Hotel has been cancelled.  Details of the re-arranged meeting will be widely publicised to members.  Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause and we will re-arrange the meeting as soon as we are in a position to do so.

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Unfair Dismissal Claims Additional Information


Unfair Dismissal Claims – Additional Information

 

Due to the volume of calls etc regarding the forms that were recently sent out requesting information on financial losses, please note that we are now asking members to complete only the following information on the forms.  Once this has been provided we will do all the calculations on your behalf and forward this to Thompsons solicitors. 

 

The Deadline has been extended to Monday 17th December 2012.

 

Please provide the following information:-

 

Name & Address

 

Date of Birth

 

Date Commenced Employment

 

Date commenced employment means length of service you can use to calculate a redundancy payment e.g. If you worked for another Authority immediately prior to working for DMBC (without a break) this can be included in this date. Your contract of employment will have this date on.

 

Dismissal Date

 

This is the date the council gave you in your termination letter.

 

Age at date of dismissal

 

Length of Notice Period entitled to in weeks

 

This is the number of week’s notice you were given in your termination letter from the Council.

 

Gross Weekly Wage

 

Please provide a copy of your March & April Payslip and we will calculate other aspects.

 

Overtime and Mileage

 

Please provide details of any overtime or mileage that you claimed between 1st May 2012 and the end of your notice period.

 

 

 

** Please return the requested information by the deadline**

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Another Government Lie????


This week we attended the Overview and Scrutiny Committee for Adults and Communities, to discuss the Governments proposals to set up new boards for the NHS, and the monitoring by Local Councillors.



Our primary concern is one of the provisions up for consultation. It states that the NHS will be tasked with delivering service improvements against a backdrop of needing to make efficiencies (political speak for cutting the budget), whilst considering the financial and clinical sustainability of the proposals within existing resources (i.e. maintaining the current budgets).



Now we can comprehend cutting budgets, even if we disagree with it, and we can comprehend maximising services within the same budget. The question is;  how is the NHS meant to increase patient services at the current budget level whilst at the same time cutting those very same budgets?



Weren’t we told that NHS budgets would increase in real terms??



To err is human, but to really mess it up takes the ConDem Coalition.