Issue - meetings

Council is recommended to:

1. Approve the Senior Pay Policy Statement for 2019 - 2020.

2. Approve the publication of the Senior Pay Policy Statement in line with the requirements of the Localism Act 2011.

3. Note that the Service Director and Director grades become a single grade 13 recognising the parity of the roles and responsibilities of the postholders.

4. Note that the Senior Pay Policy Statement 2019-2020 now incorporates a delegation to the Leader of the Council, in consultation with the Head of Paid Service, to approve additional payments to senior management, upon cessation of employment, in addition to redundancy payments where these amount to less than £100,000 in total.

5. Note that the constitution will require some changes to comply with legislation and this Senior Pay Policy. These will be reported to a future Governance Committee.

Tim Johnson, Mark Taylor, Claire Nye, John Denley, Richard Lawrence and Kate Martin left the room at this point and took no part of the consideration of the item.

Councillor Val Gibson presented the Senior Pay Policy Statement 2019-2020 for approval and recommendation to Full Council. The Senior Pay Policy Statement fulfilled the Council’s statutory duty to prepare an annual pay policy statement. The pay structure proposed in the report would replace the current pay policy referred to in the report for item 8 – Review of Senior Management Structure - April 2019. It was proposed that grades 13 and 14 would be merged, with grades 15 and 16 to be subsequently regraded appropriately. The ratio between the highest and lowest Council employees had been confirmed as 8.61:1, which was below the recommended threshold for the public sector.

Resolved:

Council is recommended to:

1. Approve the Senior Pay Policy Statement for 2019 - 2020.

2. Approve the publication of the Senior Pay Policy Statement in line with the requirements of the Localism Act 2011.

3. Note that the Service Director and Director grades become a single grade 13 recognising the parity of the roles and responsibilities of the postholders.

4. Note that the Senior Pay Policy Statement 2019-2020 now incorporates a delegation to the Leader of the Council, in consultation with the Head of Paid Service, to approve additional payments to senior management, upon cessation of employment, in addition to redundancy payments where these amount to less than £100,000 in total.

5. Note that the constitution will require some changes to comply with legislation and this Senior Pay Policy. These will be reported to a future Governance Committee.