HIGHLANDS and Islands Labour MSP Rhoda Grant has hit out after seagoing staff of Marine Scotland lost £3,000 of a £5,000 retention payment because their management abandoned a two-year deal approved by a Scottish Government Reward and HR policy panel in 2015.
Workers at Marine Scotland, a civil service directorate within the Scottish Government, could have been paid the full £5,000 until October 2017, Mrs Grant said, were it not for its decision to cut the payment from May last year.
The former Scottish Fisheries Protection fleet argued more people were looking for jobs in the marine industry and that continued payment of the supplement was no longer required to recruit and retain staff.