2012 DHB MECA Settlement
Dear Members
The settlement of the national DHB MECA was ratified on 19 December. This followed consideration of the indicative membership ballot. In summary, 93% of participants voted in favour of acceptance of the proposed settlement based on a 63% response rate. Per DHB the votes in favour ranged from 88% to 100% (response rates ranged from 42% to 81%, two were below 50%). The Executive concluded that this result provided a sufficient mandate to ratify.
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The DHBs have been formally advised of the National Executive’s ratification and are in the process of signing the new MECA; the unsigned version is available below.
The salary increase (delivered through translations to the new specialist and medical officer scales) is effective 1 January although this is unlikely to be paid out until February (or early March at the latest).
THE NEW MECA (not all signatures as yet)
