Unison said the delay was frustrating for staff who expected the money before Christmas.<\/p>\n
“These are low-paid workers, the vast majority of them women, who keep hospitals running by doing vital tasks under huge pressure,” said the union’s northern regional secretary Clare Williams.<\/p>\n
“It’s unacceptable that they were left in limbo for months. <\/p>\n
“Staff have always prioritised patient care and now they can continue to do this knowing their work is properly valued.”<\/p>\n
In 2024 the trust put healthcare assistants on a higher wage band, backdated to July 2023.<\/p>\n
Unison said this did not go far enough and were locked in a dispute until an agreement was reached in September.<\/p>\n
The row saw staff threaten to walk out and a protest held outside Darlington Memorial last year.<\/p>\n
Andrew Thacker, director of workforce at the trust said he hoped the development would provide “reassurance that all required national approvals” were completed.<\/p>\n
“We recognise that this has been a frustrating and, at times, upsetting process for those colleagues affected,” he said.<\/p>\n
He added payments are expected to be made in February subject to agreements between all parties being signed.<\/p>\n
“We are working through arrangements and will confirm details as soon as possible,” Thacker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unison said the delay was frustrating for staff who expected the money before Christmas. “These are low-paid workers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-248229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}