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Nurses' wages to increase

Pay rise for health staff pending approval

Nurses in the Island are due a pay rise.

Leading union the Royal College of Nursing tried unsuccessfully to negotiate a 5% wage increase for workers earlier this year, but talks with the Department of Health and Social Care collapsed.

Following a process of arbitration, nurse's pay will now go up by 2.5%, pending ministers' approval.

It comes days after trade unions secured a similar pay increase for civil servants and manual workers.

A spokesperson for RCN says the agreement 'recognises the hard work of members whilst acknowledging the economic pressures of the Island'

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