Unpaid leave plans ditched

MS - 20 January 2019

SUFFOLK County Council has abandoned plans to force staff to take unpaid leave to plug funding shortfalls.

The U-turn comes after Unison members at the council rejected the idea by 95 per cent in a consultation.

Unison regional organiser Sam Leigh said: “We’d like to thank the council for seeing sense and dropping this unfair pay cut... See more



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