Agenda item

[To approve the Pay Policy Statement 2022 -2023]

1.    That the Pay Policy Statement for 2022 – 2023 be approved.

2.    That the publication of the Pay Policy Statement in line with the requirements of the Localism Act 2011 be approved.

3.    That it be noted, the national pay award for National Joint Council (NJC) and Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) Chief Officers and Chief Executives had now been agreed and the relevant pay scales would be amended to reflect the pay agreements. 

The Cabinet Member for Governance and Equalities, Councillor Paula Brookfield presented the report: Pay Policy Statement 2022-2023 for approval. She advised that the national pay award for National Joint Council (NJC) and Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) Chief Officers and Chief Executives had now been agreed and relevant pay scales would be amended to reflect the pay agreement. 

On Monday (28 February) the NJC pay agreement was confirmed which increased pay point 1 by 2.75% and pay point 2 and above by 1.75%. In early February a pay agreement was reached for Chief Executives and Chief Officers of 1.5%.  

As a consequence of the national pay agreements being reached the pay ratio’s detailed within the report had been reduced and should be amended as follows; the pay ratio between the highest and the lowest paid employees was now 9.28:1 (reducing from 9.39:1 within the report) and the pay ratio between the highest and the median pay was 6.19:1 (reducing from 6.20:1 within the report).  

The Cabinet Member for Governance and Equalities, Councillor Paula Brookfield proposed the recommendations and requested that the third and fourth noting recommendations to be deleted and replaced with ‘The national pay award for National Joint Council (NJC) and Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) Chief Officers and Chief Executives had now been agreed and the relevant pay scales would be amended to reflect the pay agreements.”   The Deputy Leader of the Council, Councillor Stephen Simkins seconded the recommendations.

Resolved:

1. That the Pay Policy Statement for 2022 – 2023 be approved.
2. That the publication of the Pay Policy Statement in line with the requirements of the Localism Act 2011 be approved.
3. That it be noted, the national pay award for National Joint Council (NJC) and Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) Chief Officers and Chief Executives had now been agreed and the relevant pay scales would be amended to reflect the pay agreements.