Issue - meetings

Report of the Chief Executive.

The Service Manager Organisational Development introduced a report, which had been circulated prior to the meeting, notifying the Committee 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 with respect to policy implementation.

After discussion it was

RESOLVED to:

1)    Implement the proposed policy in relation to Pay Protection as originally drafted and shown in the ACSC report of 31 May (at Appendix A, Appendix 4 to the report) subject to reflecting that pay protection is applied at 100% for one year and at 50% for a second year with no further protection beyond this;

2)    Implement the revised policies as drafted and shown in the ACSC report of 31 May (at Appendix A, Appendix 5 to the report) in relation to Discretionary Exit Payments (both redundancy and efficiency of the service) with modifications to reflect that payment of an additional mandatory award equivalent to 30% of statutory redundancy pay (at actual week’s pay) is applied in all cases of dismissal due to reason of redundancy and reason of efficiency of the service (calculated on a notional value as if a redundancy);

3)    Confirm that statutory redundancy payments should be based on an actual week’s pay;

4)    Amend the general content and layout of both the Pay Protection and the Early Retirement and Redundancy Policies, as shown at the policies in Appendix A to the report in order to reflect current organisational structure and more efficient processes and practice;

5)    Implement policy change to affect all future dismissals from the Council where the effective date of dismissal (last date of employment) is on or after 1 September 2019; and

6)    Authorise the Service Manager, Organisational Development, under the direction of the Chief Executive, to make the drafting changes to the original policies as determined by the committee and communicate the new policy to employees at the point of implementation.