Health and social care staff are “furious” that more than £3m of thank-you payments were given to some of the highest-paid staff working for councils, a trade union has said.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced in November 2020 that all health and social care staff would receive a £500 thank-you payment in recognition of their “extraordinary” work during the pandemic.
A freedom of information request by the GMB found that 5890 of the 38,609 total recipients employed by local authorities (15.3%) were on pay grades stretching above £40,000.
