Management must be rubbing their hands with glee if reading these threads, divide and rule springs instantly to mind.
The regrading is IMHO a sham, they have not I have been advised taken into account movements in Glass G as they are unquantifiable, sorry that is ludicrous. To state that a service you provide will not be taken into account because its to hard to figure out is insulting in the extreme.
Those of us who provide services outside CAS understand the difficulties involved, vectoring scheduled traffic outside CAS providing RAS and RIS etc but apparently unless movements are inside CAS they simply don't count
I have no objections to a regrading of unit pay, providing that regrading is fair. From what i have seen so far it doesn't on the surface in any way appear fair.
I am trying to find out when the figures they based the grading on were taken, if they were taken when i believe they were then my unit has lost out.
What is often not realised at the larger units is up until now we at the regions have had to be very flexible in our working habits just to ensure things work, IE keep the airports open. With the way we have been portrayed in this regrading I expect a lot of goodwill will go.
If someone is genuinely working a lot harder then yes they should be paid more, but how you can quantify who works hardest I haven't a clue. The system they have chosen as their model has ignored to many facets of ATC to be in anyway fair.
The actual basic pay rise I have no issue with, AAVAs i have no real issue with, the regrading I am extremely unhappy about.