Pay agreement settled between Manx Care and staff

Manx Care has agreed (through joint staff side unions representing the different staff groups) a pay settlement for the 2022/2023 financial year.

The total consolidated award for 22/23 amounts to 6% plus a £1,500 increase in each pay point.

The actual percentage increase differs for each pay grade, with the greatest increases for lower grades. But on average, this means a combined 8.75% pay increase for 22/23.

Most of its staff (Band 7 & below) will receive increases of more than 13%.

The new rates of pay will be effective from April 1, 2022 with the new rate and arrears being paid in January.

This outcome finalises the pay negotiations for all Manx Care staff with the Public Service Commission agreeing a pay award of 6% for 22/23 and Medical and Dental colleagues agreeing a pay award of 6% plus £1,000 consolidated sum for 22/23. 

Manx Care faced strikes over fair pay

Earlier this year the health care provider fell victim to a number of strikes from the Royal College of Nursing members over fair pay and conditions.

The dispute led to two days of strike action by nurses on the island earlier this year, but a further offer from Manx Care was subsequently received, offering a consolidated increase of £1,500 to each pay point, with effect from 1 April 2022, in addition to the 6% increase already implemented.

Estephanie Dunn, Regional Director for the RCN in the North West, said: “We are pleased that this long standing dispute has finally reached a conclusion. However, I am saddened that our members had to resort to strike action to reach this point. It now feels like an unnecessary disruption to what is already a very strained service, when this could have been resolved much more simply.”