Quote Originally Posted by Chicken Balti Pie View Post
You miss out all the other bits though. Unsocial hours pay that bumps you up, pretty much guaranteed annual wage rises based on length of service rather than performance, and that is within the bands, you don't even need to move up a band for that increase. Beneficial overtime rates.

Back in the real world, I work in a job that is equally important and keeps the health care "industry" ticking. I will be lucky to get a pay rise this year and if I get one, it will be way below inflation and that will be because in my performance review I am over achieving. I don't get overtime, I'm salaried so any extra time I work is effectively free and my personal performance is actively monitored. I'd love all public sector workers to have these conditions on them, it would certainly drive up efficiency, maybe it's time for the government to implement that?
So you're saying that people shouldn't be compensated for working nights given the well known adverse effects on health? Or working Christmas and New Years eve?

The second paragraph is a patronising read - it almost sounds as though you are saying that because you aren't getting anything, no-one should be asking for anything more.