{"id":247927,"date":"2025-11-06T19:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247927\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:43:09","slug":"ni-health-pay-parity-will-be-delivered-for-health-service-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247927\/","title":{"rendered":"NI health: Pay parity will be delivered for health service staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unison, the largest healthcare workers&#8217; union, said the announcement on funding was a step forward but they would be seeking a further meeting with Department of Health officials to clarify details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement on Thursday, Nesbitt said the funding will &#8220;deliver pay parity for health service staff, which was our original intention and what unions and professional bodies have been asking for and is their right&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This would restore pay parity with the percentage uplifts as recommended by pay review bodies being back dated in full to 1 April 2025,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would expect our HSC workforce to receive their uplift and back pay in their February 2026 pay packets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In addition, and to ensure that issue of late payment of pay awards will never happen again, I can confirm that as health minister I am committed to ensuring future pay awards are prioritised in my budget allocation at the start of the financial year and adjusted as necessary to ensure parity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unison, the largest healthcare workers&#8217; union, said the announcement on funding was a step forward but they would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-247927","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}