Perth and Kinross councillors believe council frontline workers should get a £500 bonus just like NHS and social care staff.
Conservative leader Murray Lyle and the council’s leader of the Liberal Democrat Group Peter Barrett both want to see council employees honoured. ‘Big solution’ needed to rise in drug deaths, say Perthshire politicians Last weekend COSLA called for the £500 bonus payments to be extended to local government workers.Perth and Kinross council leader Lyle told the PA he would “absolutely support that.” On November 30 first minister Nicola Sturgeon announced - at the SNP conference - a £500 bonus to all full-time NHS and social care workers employed since March 17, 2020 - including staff who were shielding or have since.
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