Hundreds of NHS workers and academics that risked their lives tackling the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa are being denied a bonus of a lot more compared to £4,000.
The country’s biggest trade union, Unite, has actually created to the Government to criticise just what it calls a “two-tier” bonus payment scheme for volunteers in life-threatening situations.
Unite claims a one-off payment offered to 250 staff from Public Healthiness England (PHE), the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and Public Healthiness Wales (PHW) is being withheld from 200 volunteers in the NHS and academia that were functioning in the exact same dangerous conditions.
In 2 letters to the Worldwide Progress Secretary Justine Greening, Unite’s healthcare sciences national committee chairman Ian Evans called for the Government to manage just what he described as “large inequality”.
He said there was “recognition that colleagues that worked over the Christmas of 2014 would certainly obtain a one-off financial payment.
“This later became a payment for all of PHE employees and, after an extensive negotiation, additionally to Public Healthiness Wales staff that were deployed to Sierra Leone.”
He said the payment included a deployment allowance of £516.50, an operational functioning allowance of £3,615.50 and a tax free suiting up allowance of £100.
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“However, there was a caveat attached that these payments would certainly be for PHE, DSTL and PHW colleagues only.
“This has actually resulted in a situation where the aforementioned scientists will certainly obtain over £4,000 a lot more compared to volunteers from the NHS and academia that are of equal merit and that are qualified and trained to the exact same level.
“Colleagues that volunteered to be deployed did refrain this due to the fact that there was a financial incentive however it does not excuse a 2 tier payment scheme.
“We believe that all of volunteers ought to be remunerated in the exact same manner.”
The Department for Worldwide Progress has actually been contacted for comment. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was declared over on the 14 January this year, after a lot more compared to 11,000 deaths in nearly 2 years.
However, the next day officials in Sierra Leone confirmed an additional death from Ebola, while the Globe Healthiness Organisation has actually warned the virus could return.
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