Agenda and minutes

Cllr Alan Clark – Personal reasons

Cllr Georgina Culley – Unwell

Cllr Toby Neal – Other council business

Cllr Jane Urquhart – Work commitments

None.

To agree the minutes from the last meeting held 6 December 2016

The minutes of the last meeting, held on 17 January 2017 were confirmed and signed by the Chair.

Report of Director of HR and Transformation

Della Sewell, Employee Relations Manager outlined the report to the Committee covering the following points:

a)  Reporting the Pay Policy Statement to Council on an annual basis is a statutory requirement. It is intended to take the Statement as outlined in the report to Council on 6 March 2017.

b)  The Statement outlines the relationship between remuneration of chief officers and the colleagues on the lowest pay grades. 50 posts in the structure as it was in September 2016 were designated as chief officer posts for this purpose and pay is deemed to include salaries and any additional payments, allowances and expenses. Chief Officers are paid very few allowances other than out of city mileage.

c)  Multiples of earnings have not changed significantly but this may change following the introduction of the new pay model in April. Levels of payments in addition to salaries are relatively stable.

RESOLVED:

(1)  Subject to the information in the report relating to additional payments being broken down, to ensure clarity regarding the reasons for the additional payments, to note the Council’s Pay Policy Statement for 2017/18 for presentation to Council on 6 March 2017;

(2)  To approve the new Pay Policy in principle contained in Appendix 12 of the report, subject to final Trade Union agreement.