The allowances stressed in the discussions that were reduced included education assistance, call allowances and allowances accrued during holidays (locums).
Close to this is the issue of fairness with regard to reimbursement of call allowances and other forms of financial claims.
The package will also see the introduction of a new national "on-call allowance" of £15 a session for those who are sent out of their force area on "mutual aid" operations such as dealing with riots.
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Some health workers also receive an 'on-call allowance' when being called to work outside working hours.
Nursing staff qualifying for this allowance consider it unfair that they receive a lower 'on-call allowance' than for example the AMOs.
One frequent claim was that the difference in allowances, for example the 'on-call allowance' being lower for nurses than for AMOs, was very unfair.
One nurse explained: Concerning motivation of staff, the AMOs get TSH 10,000 in 'on-call allowance' whereas the nurses only get TSH 5,000.
The payment process for allowances such as on-call allowance, overtime allowance, leave allowance and subsistence allowance given to newly employed health workers were reported to not be transparent and fair.
The most common reasons cited for not participating in strategies was lack of awareness of them, although some are available only to certain cadres, such as doctors (e.g. on-call allowance).
Participation variables for the graduate recruitment allowance and the on-call allowance were also excluded as they were perfectly collinear; only respondents who participated in one participated in the other.
