Foghorn,
Are you saying that if someone fails at Heathrow tower (as a for instance) and then gets a move to another tower and validates some 4 or 5 years after joining NATS, they no longer get their pay backdated to the common graduation date, (or whatever its equivalent is called) nowadays?
Is that correct?
If so, good... but not sure it is, there is still a common date that people have to wait until to get on the true ATCO scale if valid before it... conversly, I was of the understanding that if valid after that date, pay was backdated to it...
It's happened just recently at MACC