GEOAMEY 2025 PAY TALKS UPDATE – 2ND MEETING UPDATE
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Dear Members
As members will be aware your GMB Reps don’t believe the present Company offer is adequate, but we are committed to finding a solution if possible. To do this we met the Company very briefly for a second meeting on the 2025 pay offer during our recent JNCC meeting to explore potential alternatives based on members responses to the pay survey.
POTENTIAL ALTERNATIVES
The most frequent member response relating to terms and conditions on the pay survey was about overtime, with member responses ranging from having more control over excess hours, to a daily cap to enhanced payments both during the week and on weekends.
It’s clearly an area where the present system is totally unbalanced with the Company retaining almost total control of what is effectively your pay/hours.
We referred to the fact that work/life balance was coming out very loudly in the GeoAmey Staff Survey and that it was an issue of dignity for our members to have greater control of overtime arrangements, especially as they are locked into contracts with very little control over working hours.
We proposed different options in relation to overtime for discussion to see if something of value could form part of the pay offer, including overtime being paid out after a daily cap, reform to weekend/Saturday working, greater choice of taking time off in lieu (TOIL) or receiving payment for overtime.
We were able to remind the Company that overtime arrangements had been changed in the past, so that further changes were possible and should not be considered as ‘set in stone’.
The Company has committed to reviewing the different options that were discussed and to respond formally at our next meeting on October 16th, after which we will ballot members on this year’s offer.
Thanks for your support and please ensure that colleagues who aren’t members join so they too can have their say on pay in 2025: www.gmb.org.uk/join-gmb
Yours in union,
GMB National Officer
GMB GeoAmey Reps National Committee