📣 UNISON EMAS: Rostering Principles Consultation — Your Voice, Your Future
🗓️ Stage 1: Principles Consultation
Focus: New EMAS rostering principles
Who: All EMAS staff working on a rota
When: 30 June – 14 August 2025 (45 days)
🔍 These Principles Are Not Finalised — This Is Your Chance to Shape Them
EMAS is proposing a new set of rostering principles that will affect how rotas are built across the service. These principles are part of a formal consultation — not a final decision.
That means:
👉 If you support the changes — say so.
👉 If you have concerns or objections — raise them now.
👉 If you’re unsure how they affect you — ask questions.
Once implemented, these principles will form the foundation for every future rota, impacting:
- Shift patterns
- Night shift limits
- Annual leave and TOIL
- Education and CPD time
- Relief and flexible working
- Your work/life balance
That’s why it’s essential that you engage with this consultation. These decisions are not yet made — but once they are, they will guide how we all work.
📘 What to Read
A full breakdown of the proposed principles is detailed in Appendix A of the consultation document. This outlines:
- The rationale behind each proposal
- How it would work in practice
- The impact on your day-to-day working life
📩 Appendix A was shared in the email from the EMAS Communications Team. If you need help accessing it, speak to your line manager or local UNISON rep.
🚨 Attend Your Division’s Launch Briefing
These briefings are your first and best opportunity to hear the proposals explained, ask questions, and begin the engagement process.
✅ Confirmed Launch Briefings:
- Monday 30 June
- 🕦 11:30 – Leicestershire Division
- 🕛 12:00 – Nottinghamshire Division
- 🕑 14:00 – Derbyshire Division
- 🕑 14:00 – Lincolnshire Division
- 🕒15:00 – Northamptonshire Division
- Wednesday 2 July
- 🕒 15:00 – EOC
UNISON encourages all members to attend their briefing and take an active role in these conversations.
💬 Other Ways to Engage
🗨️ 1-to-1 consultation meetings
- Discuss the impact of the proposals personally with your manager.
- You may be accompanied by a UNISON rep if you wish.
📝 Feedback from 1-to-1s will be formally captured
- All feedback will be logged via a consultation pro forma on Microsoft Forms, completed during your session.
📞 Speak to UNISON or your line manager
- We’re here to help you understand, question, and challenge any part of the proposals.
👥 How UNISON Supports You
UNISON acts on behalf of our members — we are guided by you and your feedback. This consultation is your opportunity to shape, influence or challenge these principles before they’re finalised.
If something doesn’t sit right with you — this is your window to speak up.
Let us support you through:
- Guidance
- Representation in 1-to-1s
- Clarifying what these changes mean
🔄 What Happens Next?
🟢 Stage 1: Principles Consultation
📅 30 June – 14 August 2025
👥 All rota-based staff
🔜 Stage 2: A&E Rota Review
📅 15 September – 16 November 2025
👥 A&E Division staff only
🕐 Stage 3: Review for Other Groups
📅 TBC
👥 Fleet, HART, NEPTS, EOC and other rota-based staff
⚠️ Final Message: Don’t Miss Your Opportunity
🗣️ These principles are proposals, not final.
🕐 Feedback closes 14 August 2025.
🤝 UNISON is here — but we need to hear from you first.
✅ Attend your division’s launch briefing
📄 Read Appendix A
👥 Join a 1-to-1 if you want to talk through the impact
🙋 Contact your UNISON rep for support
Let’s make sure your rota works for you — not without you.
In solidarity,
UNISON EMAS Branch
Your voice. Your rota. Your union.
#UNISONEMAS #YourVoiceYourRota #EMASConsultation2025 #HaveYourSay
Posted: 30th June 2025