Northern Ireland staff vote to accept AXA offer

Unite members in AXA Belfast and the Direct Branch Network have voted to accept the company offer of a 3% pay pot and a new starters salary of £12,400, rising to £13,400 after probation.

For: 82.98%

Against: 6.39%

The balance of papers were not returned.

These figures are similar to the voting on the AXA UK pay offer were members voted 88.05% in favour of their offer and hopefully demonstrate that the vast majority of Unite in AXA members were pleased with the efforts of the union negotiating team.

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Pay 2012 – joint AXA/Unite statement

We are pleased to announce that we have reached an outcome on the pay proposal for employees at Levels 6a to 9:

A pay increase will be awarded based on a pay matrix that varies by level as follows:

Employee Level

Percentage

L6

3.00%

L7

4.00%

L 9 – 8

4.75%

Overall, this equates to 3.6% of the total pay spend for Levels 9 – 6a.

Unite recognise that real progress has been made in the pay negotiations and the proposal is a very fair offer in relation to industry wide discussions. Unite will ballot their members for acceptance in the forthcoming pay ballot which will take place from Wednesday 1st February to Tuesday 14th February.

Vox were also consulted on this proposal in respect of AXA PPP employees, and are in agreement with Unite.

Pay matrix

The following matrices will be used to award pay increases by level as follows:

Level 6 – 3%

Rating

Position in Pay Range

Low

Medium

High

Outstanding

4.75% – 6.25%

4.25% – 5.75%

3.25% – 4.75%

Excellent

3.75% – 5.25%

3.25% – 4.75%

2.25% – 3.75%

Successful

2.75% – 4.25%

2.25% – 3.75%

1.25% – 2.75%

P.Successful/Developing

0.00% – 2.50%

0.00% – 2.25%

0.00% – 1.75%

Level 7 – 4%

Rating

Position in Pay Range

Low

Medium

High

Outstanding

6.25% – 7.75%

5.25% – 6.75%

4.25% – 5.75%

Excellent

5.25% – 6.75%

4.25% – 5.75%

3.25% – 4.75%

Successful

4.25% – 5.75%

3.25% – 4.75%

2.25% – 3.75%

P.Successful/Developing

0.00% – 3.25%

0.00% – 2.75%

0.00% – 2.25%

Level 9 and 8 – 4.75%

Rating

Position in Pay Range

Low

Medium

High

Outstanding

7.00% – 8.50%

6.00% – 7.50%

5.00% – 6.50%

Excellent

6.00% – 7.50%

5.00% – 6.50%

4.00% – 5.50%

Successful

5.00% – 6.50%

4.00% – 5.50%

3.00% – 4.50%

P.Successful/Developing

0.00% – 3.63%

0.00% – 3.13%

0.00% – 2.63%

  • These matrices have an element of manager discretion but any adjustments up have to be balanced with movements down – this is necessary to ensure affordability for the business.
  • For those employees paid above the pay range (i.e. where their FTE Salary is over the maximum of the pay range) a pay award based upon the maximum salary for their pay range will be made using the same percentages as available to those High in range.
  • Pay awards will be available for employees rated as Partially Successful/Developing. The matrices are broadly based around awards that are 50% of those available to employees rated as Successful. All awards are subject to manager discretion and based on the available ranges within these pay matrices.
  • For employees paid a salary of less than £13,900 (FTE) after the application of the pay matrices, a further uplift will be made to bring the revised FTE equivalent salary to £13,900. The £13,900 FTE salary is a value suggested by Unite which is prescribed by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as being a “minimum income standard”. (Exceptions will be any ring fenced arrangement as a result of a TUPE, employees rated unsatisfactory, employees on the AXA PPP apprenticeship scheme and instances where a manager has elected to make a 0% pay award for Partially Successful/ Developing rating.)
  • There will be no immediate changes to the pay ranges for 2012, however an agreement has been reached to review the pay ranges in view of current market conditions in Q3 this year.
             Karan Hutchinson
Group HR Director
Daryl Williams
Finance and Legal Sector Unite

 

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