Issue - meetings

Resolved to Recommend:

1.       to adopt the Pay Policy for 2017/18 as set out in appendix 1 to this report.

2.       any amendments to the Pay Policy throughout the financial year 2017/2018 which are required as a result of legislative changes can be approved by the Chief Executive in conjunction with the Council’s Monitoring Officer.

Decision

Resolved to Recommend:

1.       to adopt the Pay Policy for 2017/18 as set out in appendix 1 to this report.

2.     any amendments to the Pay Policy throughout the financial year 2017/2018 which are required as a result of legislative changes can be approved by the Chief Executive in conjunction with the Council’s Monitoring Officer.

Reason for Decision

To set the Council’s pay policy for the financial year 2017/18, as required by Section 38 of the Localism Act 2011.

Corporate Objectives

The Council’s policies in respect of pay and terms and conditions support all five of the Council’s strategic objectives as part of ensuring that services to the community can be delivered to the required standards and with due regard to economy, efficiency and effectiveness.

Monitoring Officer/S.151 Officer Comments

Monitoring Officer:

The Senior Officer Pay Policy is required by virtue of section 38 of the Localism Act 2011 and this Pay Policy complies with the statutory requirement and associated guidance.

Deputy S.151 Officer:

There are no budgetary pressures arising from the decisions in this report.  Any amendments if required under recommendation 2 will need to be met from within existing approved budgets.

Advice

Councillor Harden explained that Section 38 of the Localism Act 2011 (‘The Act’) requires local authorities in England to prepare, approve and publish a pay policy statement. The statement must detail the authority’s own policies towards a range of issues relating to the pay of its workforce, particularly its senior staff (‘Chief Officers’, as defined in the Act) and its lowest paid employees.  The pay policy statement must be prepared for each financial year.

R Smyth added that job titles have been amended and a few minor tweaks made.

Councillor Marshall asked what scope the council had in making tweaks to the pay policy and was what the council did part of the national agreement.

M Rawdon said that there were a few minor exceptions, such as for sick pay, however in the main it follows the national agreement.

Voting

None.