Issue - meetings

Report No: CAB/FH/17/034

Portfolio Holder: Stephen Edwards     Lead Officer: Karen Points

RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL: (26 July 2017)

That the West Suffolk Joint Pay Policy Statement for 2017/2018, as contained in Appendix 1 (as amended) to Report No: CAB/FH/17/034, be approved.

(Report No: CAB/FH/17/034)

Councillor Stephen Edwards, Portfolio Holder for Resources and Performance, presented this report which explained that Section 38/11 of the Localism Act 2011 required local authorities to produce a Pay Policy Statement annually.  

An amended Appendix 1 to Report No: CAB/FH/17/035 was also circulated at the meeting, as the version within the agenda papers had contained some typographical errors.

Councillor Edwards explained that a Joint Pay Policy Statement for 2017/2018, as set out in the amended Appendix 1 to the report, reflected a shared workforce and the single Pay and Reward Strategy in place for St Edmundsbury Borough and Forest Heath District Councils.  It also incorporated the outcomes of the 2013 collective agreement which established a modern reward framework for the integrated workforce.  

With the vote being unanimous, it was

RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL: (26 July 2017)

That the West Suffolk Joint Pay Policy Statement for 2017/2018, as contained in Appendix 1 (as amended) to Report No: CAB/FH/17/034, be approved.