Lack of job security remains a major worry for pharmacists, the C+D and PDA Union Salary Survey 2010 has found.
Over one third of respondents said they felt either a little less or a lot less secure in their jobs than they had last year.
Employees at independent pharmacies felt they had the least job security, with 12 per cent reporting they felt under threat of redundancy.
Nine per cent of pharmacists working for large chains feared for their jobs.
Locum pharmacists were also hard hit with 41 per cent reporting they had worried about lack of work in the past year.
One locum respondent to the Salary Survey said: “There are too many pharmacists now and still a lot of economic migrants. These factors increase the supply of locums.”
Employers were being more conservative with taking on locums in their experience, they added.
However, the results showed some improvements compared to last year’s survey.
For example, only 11 per cent of employed pharmacists overall felt at threat of redundancy this year compared to 15 per cent last year.
Source C+D
