The Minutes of the meetings held on 16 March and 16 June 2022 were confirmed as correct records and signed by the Chair.

Further to Minute 14 of the meeting held on 16 March 2022, the Assistant Director of HR and Organisational Development submitted an updated report, presenting the Council’s Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap reports for 2022, based on the position at the snapshot date of 31 March 2022.  The report stated  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.

The Assistant Director of HR and Organisational Development submitted a report, presenting two Employment Policies which had been reviewed jointly and agreed with the Joint Trade Unions.  The following documents were attached to the report:

At this point, the following motion will be moved by the Chair:

“That, pursuant to Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) members of the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following item on the agenda, as it is likely that there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in the relevant Paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 12A (as amended) of that Act”

Resolved:

That pursuant to Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) members of the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following items, as it was likely that there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

The Assistant Director of HR and Organisational Development submitted a report, which provided a monitoring statement of all termination costs that had been incurred due to employees leaving the Council on either early retirement or redundancy grounds between 1 October 2020 and 31 March 2021.  There had been no early  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

The Assistant Director of HR and Organisational Development submitted a report, which set out a request for flexible retirement of employee A and the payment of pension benefits through the Local Government Pension Scheme.  The proposal, together with the financial implications, was set out in a schedule appended to the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.