Fair pay for fair work at CQC
Care Quality Commission staff deserve a decent pay rise for the essential work they do
Staff deserve a pay rise, not another pay cut
A decade of falling wages in is having dire consequences on staff at the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Enough is enough
We will be starting continuous action short of strike from Monday 17 April, 2023. This will take the form of work-to-rule and will include members working their contracted hours, working their contracted days, not working extra hours or overtime, not undertaking tasks out with their job role or job description and taking all statutory and contractual breaks.
A 5% pay claim was submitted by UNISON in June 2022. Since then, inflation has risen to 5.4%, the highest level in 30 years. Despite this, the CQC has imposed a pay award of between 2.75% to 3.5%. In real terms, this represents a pay cut for CQC staff.
Unless we say ‘enough’, the value of pay will fall further, and those holding the purse strings will get away with it.
CQC employees inspect, monitor and regulate hospitals, care homes, GP practices and dental surgeries. Staff have endured years without a significant pay rise. The value of pay is now 25% lower than it was in 2010. Failure to give staff a meaningful pay rise actively endangers all those who use health and social care services as staff are leaving CQC due to poor pay.
In March 2023, UNISON members at the Care Quality Commission have voted decisively for industrial action over pay. In the strike vote, CQC staff were balloted by the union across England, including health, social care and registration inspection team members, call centre workers, administrators and clerical staff, data analysts, and staff in policy, strategy, engagement and media teams.
Of those who took part, 73% voted to strike and 92% voted for action short of a strike.
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* Staff at bottom of bands D, E +F awarded between 2.39% – 5.35%
** By September 2021 the RPI rate was 4.9%
Pay awards for staff at top of their band non-consolidated apart from 2020-21.
London, car user and homeworking allowances increased in line with pay awards)
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