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Pay Policy

Meeting: 21/03/2018 - Council (Item 8)

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To receive the report of the Assistant Director Human Resources presenting the Council’s Statutory Pay Policy Statement for consideration and approval.

                                                                                        (Report No: 178)

 

Members are asked to note that the Pay Policy Statement was considered and approved for recommendation onto Council, subject to the amendments identified, by the Remuneration Committee on 20 February 2018. 

Minutes:

Councillor Simon moved and Councillor Doyle seconded the report of the Assistant Director Human Resources, on the review and adoption of a statutory pay policy.  (Report No: 178)

 

NOTED

 

1.               That the policy had been approved and recommended onto the Council by the Remuneration Committee on 20 February 2018. 

 

2.               Statutorily, the policy had to be reviewed and updated every year.  The most significant change this year was the proposal to remove performance related pay from senior officers.  This had been found to be divisive and it was felt that it would be more effective and encourage people not to work in silos, to go back to a more straightforward incremental system.  Details were being worked up for consideration at the next Remuneration Committee meeting. 

 

3.               The changes had bipartisan support.

 

4.               Councillor Rye’s view that the performance related pay system had been very effective and was helpful when senior officers were not meeting their targets.  Without it there was a danger of incremental drift. 

 

5.               In future it was intended that increments would not be linked to the appraisal system.  In the existing system high performance was expected of all staff and nearly all staff did meet their targets.  The existing system had been externally validated and been found to have limited effectiveness.  De-linking would help improve the Council’s achievements. 

 

AGREED the amendments to the statutory pay policy statement attached as appendix 1 to the report.