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Compensation Scheme
for Radiation Linked Diseases
A Summary of the Specified Companies Agreement.
(Including the Schedules to the Agreement)
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What is the
Specified Companies Agreement?
Under the general agreements which direct the operation of the
Compensation Scheme (called the Morbidity and
Mortality Agreements) only people who are or
have been employed by a Scheme employer and (with the exception
of MOD personnel) are or have been a member of a Scheme trades
union are formally eligible for consideration under the Scheme.
However, in the mid-1990’s, one of the Scheme employers,
UKAEA, was split up to form a number of companies. A large part
of the original Authority retained the responsibility for the
nuclear licensed sites and thus UKAEA remained a Scheme employer.
However, the new companies (eg. AEA-Technology and Johnson Controls)
were either wholly formed by groups of UKAEA employees having
their employment transferred to these companies under the Transfer
of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (also
known as “TUPE”).
The important principle is that these people had previously
had access to the Scheme through their employer and, whilst
they continued to work at a nuclear licensed site and, in many
cases, continued in their duties much as they had under their
previous employment, their employment was being transferred
to another company which was not a Scheme employer.
In order to ensure that these groups of people continued to
have access to the Compensation Scheme, the concept of “Specified
Companies” was developed. The principle here is that,
where a Scheme employer transfers employees to another employer
which carries out work on it’s licensed sites, then the
Scheme employer should “specify” that the new employer
is listed and thus the transferred employees continue to have
access to the Scheme.
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Which Companies are listed?
The Specified Companies Agreement has three schedules appended
to it which define the Scheme employers (Schedule A), the Scheme
trades’ union (Schedule B) and the Specified Companies
(Schedule C). These are attached for information.
Please note that, in some of the listings of Specified Companies,
caveats are attached which limit the application of the Scheme
to the employees of that company. Some also have limitations
relating to dates where certain contracts or other arrangements
expired.
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More information
If you have worked for one of the Specified Companies
and believe you meet the criteria for consideration under the
Scheme, please contact the Executive Secretary, who will be
pleased to advise you further:
Michael Lewis
Compensation Scheme Executive Secretary
Group Legal Department
BNFL plc
1100 Daresbury Park
Daresbury
Warrington
Cheshire WA4 4GB
Or telephone (01925)
832706
January 2005
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The Current Specified
Companies Agreement Schedules
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| SCHEDULE A
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| The employers listed below participate in the Compensation Scheme for Radiation Linked Diseases and are parties to this Agreement:
Atomic Weapons Establishment plc
Babcock Naval Services Ltd.
British Energy Generation Ltd (formerly Nuclear Electric Ltd and incorporating British Energy Generation (UK) (formerly Scottish Nuclear) Ltd)
British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd (Company No. 1002607)
(formerly British Nuclear Fuels plc to 31st March 2005)
Devonport Royal Dockyard Limited
GE Healthcare plc
Magnox Electric Ltd. (formerly Magnox Electric plc)
Ministry of Defence
Rosyth Royal Dockyard Ltd
Springfields Fuels Ltd
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
Urenco (Capenhurst) Limited
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| The trade and staff unions listed below participate in the Compensation Scheme for Radiation Linked Diseases and are parties this Agreement:
Amicus (formerly the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union and the Manufacturing Science and Engineering Union)
Civil Nuclear Constabulary Federation (formerly the Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary Federation)
First Division Association
General Municipal and Boilermakers Union
Prospect (formerly the Engineers’ and Managers’ Association and the Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists)
Public and Commercial Services Union (formerly the Civil and Public Services Association and the Public Services Tax and Commerce Union)
Transport and General Workers Union
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians
UNISON
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The employers listed below are specified companies for the purposes of this Agreement. |
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| F2 Chemicals
Ltd |
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| BNFL
Engineering Ltd |
[to
December 2002 only] |
| Direct
Rail Services Ltd |
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| Nuclear
Liabilities Management Co Ltd. |
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| I
T Services Ltd |
[to
December 2002 only] |
| CSC, but only in relation to employees transferring from BNFL and/or I T Services Ltd. |
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| Westlakes
Research (Trading) Ltd |
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| AEA
Technology |
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| RWE
NUKEM Ltd (formerly WasteChem Limited). |
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| Rolls
Royce Nuclear Engineering Services, but only in
relation to employees transferring from the UKAEA
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7 February 2002] |
| Mitsui
Babcock, but only in relation to employees in the
Plant Decommissioning Services team at Dounreay. |
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| AMEC NNC
Ltd, but only in relation to employees transferring
from the UKAEA |
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| British
Energy plc |
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| Johnson
Controls Ltd, but only in relation to employees
transferring from the UKAEA. |
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| ICE
Contracting Ltd |
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| ISS
Servisystem Ltd |
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| Scion
Technical Services |
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| Serco Ltd, but only in relation to employees transferring from AEAT Consulting to form the division known as Serco Assurance and any employees of Serco (including new recruits) who are based or otherwise employed at any time on a UKAEA site, Risley or Devonport. |
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| BAA
Fire Service, but only on relation to the Harwell
Fire Station Manager. |
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| Scion
Estates |
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| The Civil Nuclear Constabulary |
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| British Nuclear Fuels plc (Company No. 5027024) |
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| British Nuclear Group Ltd |
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| British Nuclear Group Project Services Ltd |
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| BIL Solutions Ltd (formerly BNFL Instruments Ltd) |
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| BNFL Uranium Asset Management Ltd |
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| Nexia Solutions Ltd |
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Uranium Asset Management Ltd
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| Westinghouse Electric (UK) Ltd |
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| Emcor, but only in relation to employees working at AWE plc |
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