Trade union facilities (full-time employees)

Conference notes Section 4, Part C, Paragraph 28 of the Grey Book (as amended by CIRCULAR NJC/04/11) which states:

“28. Where a part-time employee (including an employee on the retained duty system) attends a joint consultative or negotiating meeting outside of his or her normal working time the time spent at the meeting should be paid or time off in lieu granted. Where a retained duty system employee attends such a meeting and receives payment instead of time off in lieu they shall be paid at the appropriate basic hourly rate for his/her role”.

Conference recognises and applauds the vitally important contribution that part-time employees make to the work of the Union and insists that they should continue to be remunerated in keeping with Paragraph 28.

Conference also recognises that whilst full-time employees may be afforded facility time to carry out their trade union duties, they may not be fully released from their primary employment to do so and may therefore occasionally find themselves compelled to attend consultative or negotiating meetings outside of their normal working time.

Conference insists that full-time employees be treated in the same way as part-time employees in this respect and therefore demands that Paragraph 28 be amended to read:

“28. Where an employee (including an employee on the retained duty system) attends a joint consultative or negotiating meeting outside of his or her normal working time the time spent at the meeting should be paid or time off in lieu granted. Where a retained duty system employee attends such a meeting and receives payment instead of time off in lieu they shall be paid at the appropriate basic hourly rate for his/her role”.