Issue - meetings

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Corporate Resources which informed it of the action taken by the Chief Executive to implement a pay award for employees on grades 2 – 17 inclusive and sought agreement to apply the nationally agreed Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) pay award for Chief Executives.  A copy of the report marked ‘Agenda Item 11’ is filed with these minutes.

The implementation of the national living wage had resulted in pay points at the bottom of the Council’s grade structure being very close to each other; pay points three and four were now identical.  Given that there would be further increases in the national living wage over the next couple of years, it was proposed that the grade structure be remodelled to allow for incremental progression and a clear difference between pay grades.  Work would be undertaken in preparation for the implementing the new structure at the beginning of the next financial year.  The review would be informed by the Hay Job Evaluation Scheme and it was intended to keep disruption to staff to a minimum.

RESOLVED:

(a)  That the action taken in respect of the implementation of the pay award for employees on grades 2 – 17 for the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 be noted;

(b)  That the implementation of the two year pay award for Chief Executives for the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2020 be approved;

(c)  That a report be submitted to a future meeting of the Committee setting out details of how the pay award covering the period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 will be implemented.