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| 1 | Anonymous | The proposed new grading system makes a mockery of the hard work and dedicated service the employees have provided to this council over the years. Whilst I applaud the increase for some lower paid workers, many other staff are going to be downgraded. This will result in poorer public services as experienced staff will find employment in areas where their skills are more fairly rewarded |
| 2 | Diarmuid Cullinane | |
| 3 | Alan Beckett | This is completely unacceptable and as one of the many affected I am totally against it |
| 4 | Abigail Leeming | |
| 5 | Anonymous | I value the principal of equal pay, especially for those traditionally low paid, but I object to the impact on a broad range of professional posts, who have been significantly downgraded, therefore being expected to do responsible jobs for reduced pay. We should be given the option of redundancy rather than the so called protection- where our salary is eroded over time, to the extent that we may need to make our own claims for equal pay. |
| 6 | Richard Baybutt | |
| 7 | Anonymous | I support equal pay but to attempt to "rob" some of their workforce to pay for something the City Council should have addressed years ago and thereby avoiding the type of pay claims they are now faced with, after senior managers and members have awared themselves large pay increases is morally unjustifiable. I cannot afford to take a 25% pay cut to my annual salary regardless of how many years "pay protection" you give me which frankly isn't worth the paper it is written on. Together with my husband also facing a cut to his annual salry, our household income is set to go down by 23% overall - with a young family to support one or both of us will be forced to look elsewhere for employment. The correspondence and attitude of management towards their staff has been appalling in the extreme. Not all of the job evaluations are in yet, we don't yet have an agreed appeals process in place but the formal consultation process closes on 5th December - I would ask that the trade Unions, members and Senior Management think again . . . . . . |
| 8 | Ravindra Shah | |
| 9 | Anonymous | |
| 10 | Thomas Beighton | |
| 11 | Jonathan Weston | The JE process is seriously flawed. It should not have taken place until it had been thouroghly tested and proven to be a robust and accountable process. All evidence points to the whole JE project being yet another Leicester City Council rush job. |
| 12 | N Whittingham | |
| 13 | Chand Vaja | I will be losing £2500 per annum off my salary. I am a low paid employee and barely make ends meet. With this drop in salary, I will be struggling to pay my mortgage and could end up loosing my home. |
| 14 | Anonymous | The evaluation process is clearly flawed and does not take sufficient account of the importance of working in partnership and developing such relationships, which is a key feature of the governments current agenda. |
| 15 | Simon Morris | My household will be losing over 23% of total income. This is outragous especially as surely the contract I sign up to in the first place cannot then suddenly be whipped from under me.
I joined the council over five years ago and paid pensions etc. from day 1!
What help have the Unions been too for all those that have had this terrible cut!
I have commitments that I have to pay for and a young son. This smacks of ignorance on the part of the whole evaluation process.
The whole scheme of scoring people jobs by a points system is totally flawed!
This whole process seems to have just been rushed through from the get go and the importance of the marking system was never fully explained as to the likely impact on jobs.
How is it possible to compare one job against another through a system of pre-set variables especially when the types of jobs are so diverse?
Again I say this whole system of marking is flawed! |
| 16 | Asha Kothari | I work as Admin Assistant at Welfare Rights Service, and we are based at Market Centre. I will be losing £800 pa. Downgraded to Band 2 |
| 17 | N I Mistry | |
| 18 | Anonymous | The cuts are very unfair as staff have their lifestyle according to the pay. It will be a real hardship to change lifestyle with such a high cut in salaries. |
| 19 | Anonymous | |
| 20 | David Leeming | |
| 21 | Gauri Rao | Also, several people have morgate repayments that have been calculated according to their projected income. Think how many people would struggle to make these repayments as a consequence of this move.
I am shocked to hear that this is going on. If staff have been offered a salary then the offers must be honoured. |
| 22 | Charlotte Wood | |
| 23 | rhian Bebb | I will lose a sixth of my salary - £3,000. My job was evaluated at grade 4 over 20 years ago. Why wasn't this 'mistake' (as it appears to be, according to the new evaluations) discovered years ago and the culprits sacked for gross incompetency for over 850 jobs wrongly evaluated? |
| 24 | Heather Bishop | The proposed pay cuts will cause hardship to employees for years to come, and even after retirement, as our pensions are based on our final salary, - which will be considerably lower if this ludicrous sceme is approved. |
| 25 | jayesh soma | |
| 26 | Rekha Shah | |
| 27 | Sibi Joseph | I have joined Leicester City Council as a permanent employee from 1st Sept and within a months time I got a letter saying that my I have been degraded. This is totally unacceptable. LCC cannot unilaterally decide and reduce my wages. |
| 28 | Anonymous | |
| 29 | Janet Wilkinson | |
| 30 | Stephanie Shann | It is not fair that some people take a pay cut. New employers could start on the new lower rate, but existing staff should not be forced to take a reduction in salary. |
| 31 | stephen nelson | |
| 32 | Annette Rudkin | |
| 33 | Julian Shephard | Taking money from one employee to give to another is absolutely disgusting. It isn't just low paid workers who have gained. The work I do is statutory, deadline oriented and constant, other postholders in the council do next to nothing for massive paypackets and are now getting even more. I feel insulted and betrayed. |
| 34 | EMMA RULE | The proposed pay cuts, downgrading of workers while still having the same workload, the loss of cost of living allowance for the next 2 years and no spinal point rise is offensive to valued workers. IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL. How shall people live and pay the bills? answer - Leicester City Council DOES NOT CARE. |
| 35 | Nick Toms | I might not be being downgraded myself but I cannot agree to the principle of cutting staff pay with no equivalent cut in hours or responsibilities, no consultation with the individuals and an appeals procedure (that as proposed denies the appellant access to any of the information needed to lodge an appeal in good time). The response of the Job Evaluation team to requests for information that would inform an appellants choice of appeal under the Freedom of Information Act as been very poor and at times seemingly obstructive(The council has broken its own and the Information Commissioners Office guide lines in failing to respond within statutory deadlines to information requests, but has yet to acknowledge this or apologise to staff)
I cannot help but feel that mistakes have been made in the Evaluation process and that given the deadlines on equal pay there has been a deliberate intention to suppress appeals for fear of opening the floodgates. This suggests to me that elements of the process have been badly managed with poor planning of the roll out and little if any risk assessment. Compounded by under resourcing of the project. All of which leaves those facing cuts with little or no support, guidance or hope at a time of very grave financial stress imposed, unilaterally by their employer who apparently expects them to continue working to the same high standards and commitment as if nothing of any consequence has happened. Therefore I support this petition. |
| 36 | Keith John Riley | As i am an employer, with sixteen years of experiencing, who will be afected by the pay cuts. I totally support this pettition. How can the Goverment and Local Authorities be so short sighted,a ludicrous idea |
| 37 | Annette Rudkin | |
| 38 | nital popat | |
| 39 | KAMLA GANATRA | |
| 40 | Simon Bird | |
| 41 | ESME GOES | I have worked for the Leicester City Council for 24 years and have been loyal to them visa versa, but now we have been down-graded,and the rest of the employees have been praised and rewarded, but the 857 employees have been told they are not valued. |
| 42 | jo slaney | |
| 43 | Jennifer Trka | |
| 44 | Paschal Ferguson | I agree wholeheartedly with the above statement.
Lower paid workers deserve better pay but this should not be at the expense of other workers who are being asked to do exactly the same job , to exactly the same standards , or better , and be paid substantially less for doing it. My salry will drop by £10236. Is this fair ? My Further comments on the je scheme have been posted the je team and unison. |
| 45 | Richard Rawlinson | |
| 46 | Anonymous | How can the Council justify a paycuts of up to 30% and more on top of that not pay the cost of living during the protection period. No support was provided to me in any way when informed that I was loosing over 6K per annum. I was just expected to get on with my duties. No support has been forthcoming from the unions, HR or management. Is the Council going to provide training courses on how to reduce my bills, mortgage, prescriptions etc by over 30% per annum? If I loose my home are they going to provide accommodation for me and my family? Colleagues are feeling suicidal and depressed with no motivation for coming into work. Are the Council going to be held responsible for the long term health problems that are already affecting these poor people. How dare the Council and the unions say they are not loosing money from day one - because this is going to affect our pensions and our futures. We are not all in our twenties. Some of us will not be able to take retirement because of deficient pensions. |
| 47 | Anonymous | As a single mother i barely have enough money for childcare & nappies but with this pay cut i can sit at home and live off benefits thanks, |
| 48 | Brian Henshaw | The evaluation process has been done with one object in mind, that is to lower the wage of backroom staff, to compensate for increases in other areas. If the Council continues with this policy they will lose competent, loyal & underpaid employees that no longer feel valued and as a consequence will finish up with the quality of staff it so richly deserves. |
| 49 | Bhavna Desai | |
| 50 | Peter LEe | |