Laid-off Lancashire NHS staff receive pay-outs after union campaign, says UNISON

More than 50 Lancashire-based NHS workers, made redundant on Easter Sunday without compensation, have received pay-outs after a union campaign. Liverpool-based Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust closed its Whalley site, formerly known as Calderstones Hospital, in East Lancashire on March 31. Workers at the hospital were told they’d be offered alternative employment at the trust’s Aspen site in Liverpool or another trust in Lancashire.

is the UK’s largest union with more than 1.3 million members providing public services in education, local government, the NHS, police service and energy. The union says pressure from the petition and letters sent to trust bosses by the public led to redundancy pay being offered. representative at the hospital, said: “It’s a huge relief for many of these workers to be paid the money they need to tide them over until they can find another NHS job. “While it’s a shame it came to this, I’m proud of the

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