{"id":826,"date":"2023-10-05T18:30:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=826"},"modified":"2023-10-05T18:30:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T17:30:31","slug":"automatic-increments-will-be-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2023\/10\/05\/automatic-increments-will-be-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic increments will be paid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University has agreed to fulfil its contractual obligations and pay 1,500 staff their automatic increments at the end of October. This is thanks to collective &#8216;rejection&#8217; of the pay freeze proposal from all the campus unions and staff reps.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst this isn&#8217;t a complete victory, as other areas of the pay freeze are being implemented by the University (such as no discretionary increments, a promotions pay freeze, and a deferred national pay award until July 2024) UCU are pleased that our hard work has been effective, and staff have shown mass solidarity with each other in winning a pay increase for 1,500 staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University has agreed to fulfil its contractual obligations and pay 1,500 staff their automatic increments at the end of October. This is thanks to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2023\/10\/05\/automatic-increments-will-be-paid\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}