Issue - meetings

The Committee received a report outlining the Council’s Pay Policy Statement 2015/16 for submission to the County Council. A copy of the report, marked ‘Agenda Item 6’, is filed with these minutes.

Arising from discussion members were advised as follows:-

  (i).        There were approximately twenty employees under Soulbury conditions of service, the majority of whom were education psychologists;

 (ii).        The Assistant Director advised that the wording relating to the Council’s discretionary approach to retirement benefits would be re-drafted for the final Pay Policy statement;

(iii).        The pay award agreed in February was weighted towards those on lower pay scales, and as a result the number of employees on a wage lower than the living wage had decreased.

RESOLVED:-

That the County Council be recommended to approve the Pay Policy Statement 2015/16.