Buying additional leave or time away from work
Report of the Service Manager, Organisational Development.
Minutes:
The Service Manager Organisational Development introduced a report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, notifying Members of the outcome of the consultation process and the recommendations made by the Joint Consultative and Safety Committee of 25 June in order to inform the committee’s decision in respect to policy implementation.
After discussion it was agreed to support the comments made by the JCSC subject to clarifying that line managers needed to determine applications under the scheme in a set number of working days rather than two weeks.
RESOLVED to:
1) Support the comments made by the Joint Consultative and Safety Committee, plus the response from Council management, subject to clarifying the amount of time line managers should take to determine any applications under the scheme;
2) Authorise implementation of the proposed Time Out policy as originally drafted and shown in the Senior Leadership Team report (at Appendix A, Annex 1 to the report) subject to incorporating the comments made by the JCSC and supported by the Committee; and
3) Authorise the Service Manager, Organisational Development, under the direction of the Chief Executive, to make the drafting changes to the original policy as determined by committee and communicate the new policy to employees.