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As you may know, the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), representing 144 participating higher education employers - including The University of Bristol - conducts collective pay negotiations with the five HE trade unions in order to agree the pay award for that year. Negotiations took place between November 2022 and February 2023 through the Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff (JNCHES).
For the 2023-24 pay award, colleagues will receive a pay uplift which will come fully into effect in August 2023. Your percentage increase will be dependent on your spinal point on the JNCHES(Joint negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff) pay spine.
What does this mean for me?
The total pay award for 2023/24 amounts to between 5% and 8% for staff dependning on their salary point.
In order to recognise the cost of living pressures on staff, UCEA agreed to split this pay award into two phases, the first payment was effective from 1st February 2023 and the second is from 1st August 2023
From February we paid you an interim uplift of £1000 on each pay point, or 2% whichever was greater. Staff will now receive the remainder of the pay award uplift in August, taking the total pay award to 8% on the lower pay points, and 5% at the top of the pay scales.
Please note that this is an increase in the salary scales , rather than a one-off non consolidated lump sum payment . As such the pay award is paid across the year in monthly payroll and taxed as usual.
You can find details of the increases to pay in our updated pay spines here University of Bristol grade structure.
Staff employed on non-spinal salaries and those in receipt of individual allowances which are covered by the pay award will receive their increase no later than the October payroll, backdated to 1 August 2023.
This pay award does not apply to clinical staff salaries, which are determined by NHS pay arrangements and government decision on the recommendations of the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body. The University is currently awaiting final confirmation re the Medical and dental consultants to update the relevant salary scales.
How we are continuing to work with our local trade unions:
We are aware that the trade unions who participate in the national pay negotiations have rejected the pay offer. It has become evident following the dispute resolution process that an agreement on a cost of living pay settlement remains unachievable at this time.
We will continue to work locally with union colleagues on matters relating to pay and conditions that are important to us all including gender and ethnicity pay gaps and security of employment.
We are participating in the Cubane UniForum benchmarking exercise for FY2022/23. This will take place at the beginning of September. As we move forward with the Professional Services Operating Model work, we need to check our progress, our costs and resourcing levels are correctly assigned, and how we compare to our university peers. One of the reasons for completing the Cubane exercise is to use the output to understand where and how we can improve the workloads of all colleagues.
If you missed the email communication on 1 August, it can be read via this PDF document, and for more information about the exercise please visit the SharePoint site. Please note this benchmarking exercise is for Professional Services only.
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