Decision details

The Cabinet Member for Corporate Services and Organisational Excellence along with the Director Human Resources & Organisational Development submitted a report as the Localism Act 2011 requires local authorities to agree and publish a Pay Policy Statement by 1st April each year. The joint report sets out the Council’s Pay Policy Statement for 2020 / 2021 for consideration by Cabinet, prior to referral to Full Council for approval.

Councillor Williams introduced the joint report, reminding Members that this was a statutory requirement.  Councillor Williams drew attention to the detailed information in the appendix about staff, ethnicity, grades, and pay. Councillor Russell Holland, Cabinet Member for Finance, and Skills, spoke in support of the recommendations noting that report refutes misconceptions about the number of staff and levels of pay.

Resolved – (1) That the review of Council’s Pay Policy Statement for 2020 / 2021, as set out in Appendix 1 to the report, be noted.

(2) (Minute for Confirmation) That the Pay Policy Statement be recommended to Council for approval, and, if approved, that the Director of Human Resources & Organisational Development be authorised to update the salary information on 1^st April 2020 prior to publication.

The reasons for the decision and alternative options are as set out in the report to the meeting.