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The following information was requested:
Could you provide copies of the following documents:
- Template of the employment contract issued to new employees
- Your pay policy
- Your maternity policy
- Your paternity policy
- Your pay bands / grades / scales for the years 2022-23 and 2023-24.
For clarity, by pay bands I’m referring to the starting salaries and subsequent progression points of employees at each grade in your organisation.
Could you also confirm:
- The number of days annual leave offered to new employees, and explain how this
increases over time. - Whether employees are allowed to buy and sell annual leave. If so, how many days?
- How many days of annual leave employees can carry over from one year to the next?
- The number of days employees are allowed to volunteer for (paid)?
- The number of days employees are allowed to volunteer for (unpaid)?
- Sickness entitlement of employees e.g. months paid at the full rate, half rate and what qualifying period?
- Whether the organisation closes between Xmas and New Year? If so, whether the days between Xmas and New Year are part of your employees annual leave allowance?
- What the organisations % employer pension contributions are? If this varies by
grade/band please specify what the organisations % employee pension contributions are? If this varies by grade/band please specify.
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