Agenda item

Pay Policy Statement 2019/20

Report by Chief Executive

Minutes:

Further to Minute 18 of the Personnel Committee held on 14 March 2019, the Director of Resources submitted a report outlining the draft pay policy statement, which was appended to the report.  The report stated that Local Authorities were required under Section 38(1) of the Localism Act 2011 (the Act) to prepare a Pay Policy Statement that articulated the Council’s policy towards the pay of the workforce, particularly senior staff and the lowest paid employees.

 

The report explained that each local authority was an individual employer in its own right and had the autonomy to make decisions on pay that were appropriate to local circumstances and which delivered value for money for local taxpayers.  Section 40 of the Act required authorities, in developing their Pay Policy Statement, to have regard to any guidance that had been published by the Secretary of State.  This included Communities and Local Government guidance on Openness and Accountability in Local Pay and the Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency (as amended).  The Act basically required Councils to produce a Pay Policy Statement annually that was accessible for council tax payers to be able to take an informed view of whether local decisions on all aspects of remuneration were fair.

 

The following motion was moved by Councillor Lovelock and seconded by Councillor Page and CARRIED:

 

Resolved:

 

That the Pay Policy Statement 2019/20, as appended to the report, be approved to take effect from 1 April 2019.

 

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