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Unite calls for indirect NHS employees to be given pay rise too
BRITAIN’S biggest union Unite is calling on private companies and the Department of Health to give indirectly employed NHS workers the same pay increase as employees.
More than a million health workers will receive a pay rise worth 6.5 per cent to most staff over the next three years.
But thousands of workers in the health service, many of them low-paid, have been excluded from the deal as they are indirectly employed, which Unite says is unjust.
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