Latest UNISON Scotland Briefings from the Bargaining and Campaigns Team. UNISON Scotland Briefings include Bargaining and Policy Briefings for branches on a wide range of policy and employment issues, e-briefings and Legal Updates and briefings for MSPs and MPs and others to represent UNISON policy where decisions are being made.
E-briefing – Autumn Statement and Scotland – Nov 2016
This briefing highlights the main implications of the UK Autumn Statement for UNISON members in Scotland. While the £800m additional capital spending is welcome, there is nothing for revenue spending where ... Read More
Policy Briefing 81 Education and Early Years Consultations
The Scottish Government has now published 2 consultations on its plans for education and childcare. The first Empowering teachers, parents and communities excellence and equity in education is seeking views ... Read More
e-briefing – NHS Scotland 2016 – Audit Scotland Overview
The key message in this year’s Audit Scotland report is that funding is not keeping pace with increasing demand and the needs of an ageing population. NHS boards are facing an ... Read More
e-Briefing – PPP: cracking down on costs
In our report and toolkit ‘Combating Austerity’, we showed how public bodies could make savings on their Public Private Partnerships (PPP) schemes. This applies to all PPP schemes, be they ... Read More
e-Briefing – Council Tax changes 2016
The Scottish Government has published a Statutory Instrument to change the proportion of Council Tax collected at each band. This modest reform to the Council Tax is intended to increase ... Read More
Scottish Government Plan 2016-17
Policy Briefing No 80: The Scottish Government has published its 'Plan for Scotland 2016/17'. This plan covers their legislative and administrative actions for the coming year. There are a number of ... Read More
Education Plan – more detail needed Kirby tells CoSLA
UNISON welcomes the opportunity to contribute to today’s proceedings. Whatever industrial relations differences we may have there will be issues of common cause of a strategic nature and we welcome ... Read More
Briefing 079 Bargaining – Police Best Value – July 2016
KEY POINTS: Police Scotland is failing to provide Best Value because of unrealistic targets to maintain an arbitrary minimum number of police officers while cutting back on efficient and cost ... Read More
Briefing 078 Policy – Education Delivery Plan – July 2016
This briefing covers the Scottish Government's Education Delivery Plan. It sets out measures to reduce the attainment gap in Scottish education. They include some budgetary devolution to schools, backed up ... Read More
Term Time Working Briefing
Term time working should be included as an option in any workplace agreements around flexible working Employers must consider Term Time working requests as they would any other flexible working ... Read More
