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The Partnership InformationNetwork (PIN) issued a PIN Guideline prepared by the service for the service inJanuary last year entitled “Dealing with Employee Concerns”.This partnership prepareddocument includes guidance and a model freedom of speech policy.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 August 2003
To ask the Presiding Officer what steps were taken, and by whom, to advise affected employees of the changes being made to the method of payment by the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body regarding employer contributions to the personal pensions of MSPs' staff where such payments were being made under the direct debit scheme.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many employees in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service are currently absent from work having been medically diagnosed as suffering from (a) stress, (b) work-related stress or (c) a stress-related condition.
Pay and conditions for research staff is a matter for institutions to decide in conjunction with employees and their representatives. An 8% increase in the funding allocated by the Executive for 2001-02 allowed the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) to increase the unit of core funding by 4%, the first real terms increase in core funding in a...
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its employees are currently employed on casual employment contracts and how many of these are employed on such contracts for one year or more, broken down by department and division.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 February 2002
The pay and conditions of service of school librarians is a matter for the Scottish Joint Council (SJC) for Local Government Employees. The Scottish Executive is not part of the SJC.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 January 2002
BEAR Scotland Ltd has quality systems and operational procedures in place which require safety issues to be addressed, relating both to the public and its employees, whilst ensuring that its other obligations under the terms of the trunk road contract are met.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 January 2002
Sun tanning parlours are subject to the requirements of health and safety regulations that place obligations on employers to protect the health of their employees and members of the public who might be affected by their work (in this case, customers).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 November 2001
The Labour Force Survey, run by the Office of National Statistics, shows that the number of people employed in the construction industry in Scotland (including employees, self-employed, and government trainees), is approximately 180,000.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to keep former employees of the Scottish Transport Group informed of the progress of the wind-up of the Scottish Transport Group pension schemes.