Always_broken
Didn't get the chance to ask this at our brief from the team, but you might wish to.
How is it that a computer system that has to be updated each year with new rates of pay can't cope with a flying pay change?
All that has to be accessed in the system is the rate (happens every year), and the point at which an individual changes band (a parameter that is already programmed into the system and could easily be changed).
I don't accept that this cannot be done. Having read the AFPRB report, they seem to be just as frustrated with the MOD's inability to impliment some of their recommendations simply because of computers systems.
At least if we had asked the AFPRB to set the rates we would know where we stand & have found what needed to be changed. It seems to me that our lords & masters used the computer problem to dodge the issue, the AFPRB where asked to look at other issues with the knowledge that they could not be acted on yet, but it wasn't done with flying pay!
BTW para 2.16
"For the future, DLA MCG pointed out that the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law gave everyone the right to belong to a trade union." - Just a thought
