Nurses in Northern Ireland may have no alternative but to take further strike action if there has been no pay offer by autumn, RCN_NI warns
Nurses in Northern Ireland may have no alternative but to take further strike action if there has been no pay offer by autumn, the NI director of the Royal College of Nursing has said.
She added that nurses can make "a significantly increased amount of money" by working outside Northern Ireland, in other parts of the UK or the Republic of Ireland. "The Department of Health told us there is currently no funding for a pay award and they would have to bid for funding from the Department of Finance," the body continued.The body added it was concerned with what the department had said about affordability, telling it "there was no capacity to afford a pay uplift for 2023-24 without implementing corresponding cuts to expenditure on services or additional funding being made available".
"At this stage our officers are entitled to know if they are getting 7% or if, for the first time, there will be a break with pay parity," he said. A spokesperson for the Department of Finance said pay awards "need to be viewed in the context of the available budget".
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