Any employer wishing to amend allowances in the way RBC propose should negotiate through the LGA for the change to be made across the board through revision of the Green Book rather than piecemeal unilateral erosion of agreed terms.
I need to use my car so I can deliver equipment to my clients and risk assess it's use at the same time, not some time after the van has made delivery separately to client. The need is therefore related to client risk rather than mileage. If the council will not pay me a realistic rate for the wear and tear of using my car for repeated short urban journeys (the most wearing type of driving on all components of a car) I will have to consider whether to use public transport which will slow down the number of clients I am able to see hugely.
I also feel that we need to look at attacks on public sector workers in context. This year's pay award was (I think) around 1%. Next year politicians are talking about a public sector pay freeze. Pensions commentators are already talking in the media about ending the final salary public pension schemes such as the LGPS. Inflation is also reported to be rising again. Now with the proposed changes to car allowances these wil, taken together, bring about considerable reductions in pay and benefits to an already low-paid sector which is being asked to work harder every year.
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