Agenda and minutes

Appointments and Conditions of Service Committee
Tuesday, 7th March, 2017 2.00 pm

Venue: LH 1.15 - Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG. View directions

Contact: James Welbourn Email: james.welbourn@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Items
No.	Item
36.	Apologies for absence Minutes: Councillor Alan Clark - personal reasons Councillor Jon Collins - other Council business Councillor Jane Urquhart - work commitments
37.	Declarations of interests Minutes: Councillor Toby Neal declared an interest in item 41 as he pays the WPC. This did not preclude him from speaking, or voting on the item.
38.	Minutes PDF 193 KB To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 20 February 2017. Minutes: The minutes of the meeting held on 20 February 2017 were agreed and signed by the Chair.
39.	Public Sector Duty - English Language Requirement Policy PDF 242 KB Report of Director of HR and Transformation Additional documents: English Language App A , item 39. PDF 293 KB English Language App B , item 39. PDF 144 KB Minutes: Sheena Yadav-Staples, HR Consultant introduced a paper outlining an English Language Requirement Policy. The report outlined the Council’s statutory duty under the Immigration Act 2016 that requires all local authorities to ensure all colleagues or job applicants that are engaged to work in a customer-facing role either face to face or by telephone have the ability to speak fluent English. Any complaints made by citizens about a colleagues standard of English through ‘Have your say’ would be investigated to establish if there is any merit in progressing through the process as detailed in the policy, and anyone subject to such a complaint would have the right of reply. RESOLVED to: (1) receive a report back in a year’s time on this topic; (2) approve the Policy for inclusion in the Council’s People Management Handbook.
40.	Exclusion of the public To consider excluding the public from the meeting during consideration of the remaining items in accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 on the basis that, having regard to all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. Minutes: RESOLVED to exclude the public from the meeting during consideration of the remaining items in accordance with Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972 on the basis that, having regard to all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.
41.	Proposed changes to the Workplace Parking Charge (WPC) scheme resulting from the planned Government removal of salary sacrifice and WPC scheme price increase recommendations View the reasons why item 41. is restricted Report of Corporate Director of Commercial and Operations Minutes: Nigel Hallam, Parking and Workplace Parking Levy (WPL) Service Manager presented the report to the Committee. RESOLVED to approve the recommendations as set out in the exempt report. Councillor Georgina Culley voted against all recommendations.
42.	Pay, Reward and Conditions of Service View the reasons why item 42. is restricted Report of Report of Director of HR and Transformation/Corporate Director for Strategy and Resources Minutes: Della Sewell, Employee Relations Manager, presented the report to the Committee. RESOLVED to approve the recommendations as set out in the exempt report.
43.	Living Wage in Schools View the reasons why item 43. is restricted Report of Director of Human Resources and Transformation/Corporate Director for Strategy and Resources Minutes: Della Sewell, Employee Relations Manager, presented the report to the Committee. RESOLVED to approve the recommendation as set out in the exempt report.