Issue - meetings

1. That the proposed amendments to the NJC pay Model be approved as detailed in the Collective Agreement March 2019.

2. That the amendments to terms and conditions be approved as detailed in the Collective Agreement March 2019.

3. That the implementation of above with an effective date of 1 April 2019 be approved.

4.  That authority be delegated to the Cabinet Member for Governance, in consultation with the Deputy Managing Director, to approve a collective agreement with Soulbury employees to implement a mandatory unpaid leave scheme.

Councillor Val Gibson presented the Employee Offer, Pay Model and Collective Agreement for approval and referred to the amended version of the report and Appendix 2 provided in the supplement pack.

The pay model incorporated the nationally agreed pay award to the City of Wolverhampton pay model, all NJC employees would receive the national agreed pay award of a minimum of 2%. The estimated total payroll costs for the Council for 2019-2020 was in the region of £150 million. This included the NJC pay award which must be implemented in April 2019. The Council was seeking to achieve savings of £2 million from amendments to the terms and conditions of employment in 2019-2020. All trade unions had agreed to the changes to the terms and conditions of employment, except the Soulbury Trade Union where negotiations were ongoing. There had been significant consultation and it was proposed that all employees within scope would be required to take three days leave without pay, and that the Council would introduce a Christmas closure using the three days of mandatory unpaid leave.

Resolved:

1. That the proposed amendments to the NJC pay Model be approved as detailed in the Collective Agreement March 2019.

2. That the amendments to terms and conditions be approved as detailed in the Collective Agreement March 2019.

3. That the implementation of above with an effective date of 1 April 2019 be approved.

4.  That authority be delegated to the Cabinet Member for Governance, in consultation with the Deputy Managing Director, to approve a collective agreement with Soulbury employees to implement a mandatory unpaid leave scheme.