12th March 2006, 11:01 AM
My belief is that the IFA minimum salaries and RAO scheme could be used to bring about a real improvement. However, it needs to be flagged up well in advance so that the increased costs can be properly managed. It also needs to be incremental, to aid in the management of costs and reduce the risk of being undercut by the competition. This risk may also be further reduced by partnership with other stakeholders e.g. BAJR, SCAUM, Prospect etc etc. Flagging changes up well in advance means that further representations can be made on behalf of organisations which are constrained by belonging to larger entities( such as local government, universities)so theyt can meetthese targets.
The exact figures and timescale will have to the product of negotiation but the figures I suggested above strikes me as a reasonable first bash.
so from April 2008 to APRIL 2010 increase PIFA minima by AAWI + 2%; AIFA by AAWI+5%; MIFA AAWI +5%. At this stage I hope that PIFA level should be at what is considerd an appropiate wage.
That is a campaign with a clear target, fixed targets by which its success ( and the effectiveness of the stakeholeder organisations) can be measured, with I hope a negotiated consensus of what is reasonable.
The exact figures and timescale will have to the product of negotiation but the figures I suggested above strikes me as a reasonable first bash.
so from April 2008 to APRIL 2010 increase PIFA minima by AAWI + 2%; AIFA by AAWI+5%; MIFA AAWI +5%. At this stage I hope that PIFA level should be at what is considerd an appropiate wage.
That is a campaign with a clear target, fixed targets by which its success ( and the effectiveness of the stakeholeder organisations) can be measured, with I hope a negotiated consensus of what is reasonable.