UNISON members have been in touch to say that there are still issues around the calculation of time for the additional public holiday for the Queen Diamond Jubilee (QDJ). Groups of workers with non-standard hours such as early years workers, are receiving conflicting advice about how the holiday entitlement should be calculated and have approached the branch for advice. Alarmingly some members have been informed locally that they will need to work back hours due to the Queen

Hybrid Working UNISON waiting on response to concerns raised in December Last year UNISON registered a variety of concerns with Falkirk Council regarding a proposed hybrid working policy For clarity, these concerns were not about hybrid working as such, rather the failure of the policy to address key concerns arounds health & safety, additional costs to the employee, IT kit, decision to cut desk space and that hybrid working should be voluntary and have the flexibility for st