//I remember when I worked at a local authority the NALGO rep had a go at me for not taking enough sick time.//
“Whitley” days, Tora, named after the Whitley Council which, among other things, negotiated the principle that if you went sick whilst taking your annual leave, the days you were sick did not count against your annual leave allowance.
Apparently the pseudo-Marxist who is running the negotiations for the BMA, its co-chairman Dr Robert Laurenson, suggests that a 35% pay rise is necessary because doctor have suffered erosion of their pay for over twelve years as a result of below inflation pay rises. So if the pay is so terrible, why has anybody joined the profession in the past ten years or so?
Dr Laurenson, who was educated at the £46,000 per year Sevenoaks school, is listed alongside his parents and brothers as a director of his parents’ business, Westholme Investments Limited. The business currently holds over £2million of investments and previously ran a Surrey golf course described as 'one of the finest' in the county. He was granted his directorship aged a8, just before beginning his medical training:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03705244
He is currently a trainee GP in Dartford or somewhere,
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robert-laurenson-0b385435